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competition is good?
competition is good?
Posted Mar 22, 2007 16:24 UTC (Thu) by Uraeus (guest, #33755)In reply to: competition is good? by kamil
Parent article: Linux and flash
Considering that the founders of GNOME where Mexican (Miguel and Federico) and the majority of developers in the early years where European (and still is) I think your theory about an US NIH applying to GNOME is rather far fetched.
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competition is good?
Posted Mar 22, 2007 17:54 UTC (Thu) by kamil (subscriber, #3802) [Link]
Well, you know, Mexico is on the same continent as the U.S. :-). Plus, Gnome, being a GNU project, could be seen as U.S.-controlled.
But you are right, I didn't have enough information about Gnome to make that statement. I still do believe though that the NIH syndrome applies more to Americans than Europeans. I'm a computer scientist and I see a lot of it when it comes to, e.g., referencing other people's work.
Anyway, we are awfully off-topic here :-).
competition is good?
Posted Mar 29, 2007 18:07 UTC (Thu) by TRauMa (guest, #16483) [Link]
The whole Airbus effort smells like "Look, we too" to me. What about Galileo?