"dare t" <daret at linuxmail.org> wrote: > http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/774/ > "The plethora of Free Software applications ... is a problem... In > order to conquer the desktop, we have to stand united. " This is not the best quote of the article, nor was most of his article needed. The following paragraph is all that you really need to know: Please stop developing and using some obscure application when there are better alternatives. Not happy with them? Fix what's wrong, or if everything looks wrong, work at separating the functionality into a UI-independent library, then develop your own graphical interface. Reusing and improving existing code, not making your own, is the way. Drop the "not made here" syndrome and your 15 minutes of fame on freshmeat when making the announcement, and unite with the rest of the community. Starting a new project is a good way to learn to develop software, but you can also learn by doing bugfixing, unit testing, and development of new features and optimizations of existing applications. Sourceforge should start removing projects with less than 1% activity for the last six months (every week, they could propose several projects to be removed, and allow a month for the activity to increase). His directive to the newbie programmer acolyte is to add by augmenting and improving that which is there, not to reinvent the wheel yet again. I disagree with how he structured this article, but the message is useful. Yes, I agree. He is right. I hope he's leading by example. -- Chad Walstrom <chewie at wookimus.net> http://www.wookimus.net/ assert(expired(knowledge)); /* core dump */ _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list