Mark Shuttleworth interview (Linux Format) [LWN.net]

Mark Shuttleworth interview (Linux Format)

Posted Oct 4, 2006 10:52 UTC (Wed) by pointwood (subscriber, #2814)
In reply to: Mark Shuttleworth interview (Linux Format) by Los__D
Parent article: Mark Shuttleworth interview (Linux Format)

You claim that KDE did the NIH thing, but at the same time you say that you didn't follow the discussion. In other words, what you're saying is pure FUD, sorry.

If you had actually checked out why the KDE developers are creating Phonon, you would also know that there are quite good reasons for creating it.

Here is a comment from a KDE developer:
http://lwn.net/Articles/183462/

As he writes, he posted more about it in a post on his blog which he links to. I suggest reading that as well.

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Mark Shuttleworth interview (Linux Format)

Posted Oct 5, 2006 7:39 UTC (Thu) by Los__D (subscriber, #15263) [Link]

I certainly read that before, and it boils down to, "because we screwed up our own junk, we wont use other people's stuff"

This still is NIH, just a scared version of it.

There's no reason to collaborate with KDE devs, they screw it up every single time. In 20 years it STILL will be impossible to make a simple skin change to support different desktops because of these morons.

"OH NO, there's a G in it, let's wrap it in tons of junk to make it seem like we don't use it"

Mark Shuttleworth interview (Linux Format)

Posted Oct 5, 2006 8:18 UTC (Thu) by boudewijn (subscriber, #14185) [Link]

Ah, this must be the famous civility that KDE users so infamously lack.

Mark Shuttleworth interview (Linux Format)

Posted Oct 5, 2006 8:30 UTC (Thu) by pointwood (subscriber, #2814) [Link]

The same NIH that is responsible for implementing freedesktop.org
standards like D-Bus in KDE4?

Phonon doesn't mean that KDE4 isn't going to use Gstreamer. In fact,
Gstreamer was the first to be supported IIRC. I'm not sure what exactly
the problem is?

AFAIK, the KDE devs are very much supporting the freedesktop.org
initiative and are making sure KDE implements support for it. Do you have
any examples of the opposite?