[OpenIndiana-discuss] Gnome to become a Linux only project

[Ken Gunderson]

On Thu, 2011-05-19 at 10:26 -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> On 05/19/11 04:23 AM, Apostolos Syropoulos wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I have read the following
> > 
> > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTQ1Nw
> > 
> > 
> > Are they serious? I think we should seriously consider abandoning GNOME
> > and replace it with KDE.
> 
> Will it seriously happen?   To soon to say.
> 
> Are there some GNOME developers seriously annoyed that they have to do
> a lot more work to support other platforms than the amount of contributions
> they get from developers of those platforms?   Absolutely.
> 
> If you care, you can contribute to lessening that pain by reducing platform
> differences or contributing more to the overall GNOME development.
> 
> For instance, a very similar set of developers work on X.Org, and most of them
> are Linux based, but they're not as upset about carrying support for Mac OS X,
> Solaris or BSD, because the developers from those platforms help with the
> overall project development load.   I did release management for X11R6.9, 7.5,
> and 7.6; the MacOS X port maintainer from Apple is also the maintainer of the
> Xorg 1.9.x & 1.10.x stable release series, the OpenBSD port maintainer is also
> the security alert coordinator, etc.    HP-UX, SCO, AIX?   Long since purged.

Yep.  Unfortunately the modern corporate position of many in these tough
economic times seems to be that there IS such thing as a free lunch -
they're putting minimal, if any, effort into their further development
of their proprietary *nices and counting on a free Linux lunch to fill
the void.  Then they whine and complain when Linux lets them down on
enterprise grade features necessary for the task at hand.  For example,
back in Yahoo's hayday, they employed several developers tasked with
working on FreeBSD full time.  Now?  I haven't kept up, but I don't
think there are many, if any.