[geeks] Sun a possible takeover target - rumours

[Jonathan C. Patschke]

On Sun, 11 May 2003, Frank Van Damme wrote:

> That said I don't think you can compare GNUstep with either Gnome or Kde in
> terms of functionality for the programmer.

Perhaps, but that begs the question of whether or not a programmer NEEDS
that much functionality.  How much of what's there is actually useful,
and how much of it is for bragging rights?  To be honest, when I'm a
programmer, I care about functionality, but when I'm a user, I couldn't
care less.  If the software does what I want it to, great.  If it
-almost- does what I want it to, and takes forever in doing it, I'm
going to be less happy.

WindowMaker and GNUstep and vim and rxvt fall into the former category.
Enlightenment and GNOME and gedit and gnome-terminal into the latter.

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