28 Nov
2005
28 Nov
'05
8:40 a.m.
On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 04:45:34PM +0000, Anthony Anson wrote:
Which will never happen. There will be standrads and some distros and apps will adhere to them. But Linux is too diverse for that ever to be universal.
I know - but note the 'if' and the 'could'.
It would be good if the writers could try to converge rather than diversify. There are thousands of varieties of apple, but given time, one person could try all of them.
I don't follow the analogy. There certainly are thousands of varieties of apple and no one variety is right for every use or taste, thus we should try and preserve at least a fair proporttion of them to ensure that the required diversity remains.
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Chris Green (chris@areti.co.uk)
"Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence."