From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261877AbTJGIXw (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Oct 2003 04:23:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261891AbTJGIXw (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Oct 2003 04:23:52 -0400 Received: from [195.190.190.7] ([195.190.190.7]:43931 "EHLO mail.pixelized.ch") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261877AbTJGIXu (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Oct 2003 04:23:50 -0400 Message-ID: <3F82780C.8080408@pixelized.ch> Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2003 10:23:40 +0200 From: "Giacomo A. Catenazzi" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20030925 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pavel Machek CC: David Lang , Krishna Akella , Paul Jakma , kartikey bhatt , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Can't X be elemenated? References: <20031007040449.GM205@openzaurus.ucw.cz> In-Reply-To: <20031007040449.GM205@openzaurus.ucw.cz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > >>different toolkits exist becouse people are solving different problems. >>which set of people do you propose telling that their desires don't >>matter? > > > Well, qt and gtk solve pretty much same problem, > their existence seems like historical accident to me. Hmm. World (also in linux kernel) is not so efficient! There are more tools for same task/problem. Maybe in the long run only one tools per problem will survive, but the diversity is good, also at cost of the duplicate work. Do you want only one distribution for user, one for small companies, one for schools,...? Do you want only one web server implementation? Only one filesystem per task (only one journaling FS)? Are they all "historical accident"? ciao giacomo