Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on January 11, 2007 06:01 PM
" If the author wants to make a useful contribution, why doesn't he fix one of the bugs in OpenOffice, thereby helping millions of users instead of dozens?"
Why are you talking of OpenOffice ? Scribes is mostly a code and config files editor like vim. It's not Abiword or OO Writer.
And you don't understand what Free Software is about. Free software is about the fun of programming. It's a programming community. OpenOffice.org IS NOT A PART OF THE PROGRAMMING COMMUNITY. It's a piece of shit that came from PROPRIETARY CODE, from the dark times of C++. It's code is ugly as hell, written with stupid abstraction code to make it look like multiplatform. It has it's own widget system with a Not Invented Here syndrom. (QT and wxWidgets are much better.)
What's Scribes ? it's a beautiful piece of Python code. It's written for our platform, Linux. There's no layer over layer over layer of abstraction crappy code. It's made from the free time of it's programmer, he's not paid to do it.
Don't ask what's the point about it. If you find it not useful for you, fine, go ahead. I'm bored to see all those lUsers asking the programmers to do things they don't care for. God, please use proprietary software. You pay for the service.
If you want him to do "something useful", give him a salary. As for me, i will try it because i like the ideas that came from it's ergonomy. I don't care there's hundred text editors. They are all not the same. Vim is not Emacs. Gedit is not Kate. Scribes isn't any of those. I'm fine with it.
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Re:What's the point of this?
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on January 11, 2007 06:01 PMWhy are you talking of OpenOffice ? Scribes is mostly a code and config files editor like vim. It's not Abiword or OO Writer.
And you don't understand what Free Software is about.
Free software is about the fun of programming. It's a programming community. OpenOffice.org IS NOT A PART OF THE PROGRAMMING COMMUNITY. It's a piece of shit that came from PROPRIETARY CODE, from the dark times of C++. It's code is ugly as hell, written with stupid abstraction code to make it look like multiplatform. It has it's own widget system with a Not Invented Here syndrom. (QT and wxWidgets are much better.)
What's Scribes ? it's a beautiful piece of Python code. It's written for our platform, Linux. There's no layer over layer over layer of abstraction crappy code. It's made from the free time of it's programmer, he's not paid to do it.
Don't ask what's the point about it. If you find it not useful for you, fine, go ahead. I'm bored to see all those lUsers asking the programmers to do things they don't care for. God, please use proprietary software. You pay for the service.
If you want him to do "something useful", give him a salary.
As for me, i will try it because i like the ideas that came from it's ergonomy. I don't care there's hundred text editors. They are all not the same. Vim is not Emacs. Gedit is not Kate. Scribes isn't any of those. I'm fine with it.
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