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Re: [Gnumed-devel] interesting read
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Karsten Hilbert |
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Re: [Gnumed-devel] interesting read |
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Sun, 18 Dec 2005 23:52:31 +0100 |
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On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 02:24:53PM -0800, Jim Busser wrote:
> >http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2005/12/linus_on_source.html
>
> Does the above mean that developers should be encouraged to develop
> and contribute anything that they want, but there still remains a
> legitimate value, and strategic importance, to:
>
> - identify the "core" pieces that most people will want/need for a
> typical environment
>
> - make it possible *for those who wish* to be able to "fall back" to
> a consistent UI (hopefully not boring)
> AND
>
> - accept all of the "crazy developer" stuff around the edges
Yep, that's why I always liked to look at Syan's stuff ;-)
> but be
> able to *identify* it as for-the-moment non-core, and to *track* it
> and, when it makes sense, to *incorporate* some of these pieces in as
> "variant distros"? of GNUmed, if not as core
>
> (I think we already do this, at least to some extent, dunno if this
> part has to be more clearly architected or at least communicated)
Jim sums it up, as usual :-)
The reason for posting the link was that I pretty much agree
on how Linus thinks things happen and I wanted to add a more
prominent voice to the choir :-o
Karsten
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