Hallo Emanuele, * Emanuele Rocca <ema@debian.org> [2005-04-10 23:01]: > * [ 10-04-05 - 20:28 ] Bernd Eckenfels <ecki@lina.inka.de> wrote: > > In article <[🔎] 20050410172706.GB4560@ngolde.de> you wrote: > > > Ok thats a reason. But why not merge these projects now? I > > > really recommend this because in my opinion this are two > > > projects which do the same job twice which is in my eyes > > > contraproductive. > > > > Actually that is how open source works. I often also feel that this > > duplicate work, most often driven by personal preferences is wasted time, > > but then I get out my Kathedral and Bazaar book and read it again and come > > to the conclushion that competition and alternatives are good (in the long > > term). > > Sure, but only if two projects have at least some differences; in 'The > Cathedral and the Bazaar' popclient becomes fetchmail. > > Whenever someone submits an ITP for the software A, whose functionality > is already provided in Debian by B, the standard question is "Why is A > better than B? From your long description it is not clear which are the > aspect that make them different." Thats what I think too. What do others think about this? Regards Nico -- Nico Golde - 310777820@ICQ | GPG: 1024D/73647CFF http://www.ngolde.de | http://www.muttng.org | http://grml.org VIM has two modes - the one in which it beeps and the one in which it doesn't -- encrypted mail preferred
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