Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on January 12, 2005 12:59 AM
"There are plenty of half-finished alpha-quality projects out there."
True, however be careful determining that some project is dead. There a few that *appear* to be, but aren't when you look more carefully.
"Everyone working on individual overlapping projects ends up creating a million different projects that never get anything done, as opposed to putting our heads together and having one or a few well-done projects such as GNOME/KDE or window managers or vi/emacs. "
Some people take that to extremes. e.g. "Why doesn't KDE/Gnome merge?"
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Don't create another project-Not dead yet.
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on January 12, 2005 12:59 AMTrue, however be careful determining that some project is dead. There a few that *appear* to be, but aren't when you look more carefully.
"Everyone working on individual overlapping projects ends up creating a million different projects that never get anything done, as opposed to putting our heads together and having one or a few well-done projects such as GNOME/KDE or window managers or vi/emacs. "
Some people take that to extremes. e.g. "Why doesn't KDE/Gnome merge?"
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