Re: Why not?
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> > Clearly all this is rather a matter of opinion; my only intent in
> > posting was to provide a counter to your implication that KDE/qt was
> > somehow obviously superior in functionality/usability, and that people
> > only like Gnome/gtk for "political" reasons. That's simply not true.
>
> GNOME *is* about politics as is the rest of the GNU Project. So long
> as that pertains to Free Software, I have no problem with it and even
> support it. What bothers me is when "awareness" of causes not related
> to the issue of software are pushed my direction. I was largerly a
> fan of GNOME back in its early days until they set about on the whole
> "bonobo" thing and that is where they really lost me--I don't want
> somebody's personal cause/politics being shoved in my face.
Ignorance is bliss. A brief reference that could safely be ignored, unless you consider following a link to get backround information on the name to be pushed on you.
The real politics is GPL versus LGPL and making software work the way people work versus providing masses of options to the point that there must be an option in there some where that lets a person do what they want.
I think any group of bright, assertive, opinionated people is going to have some references to political causes coming up. I hardly see it as a reason to use or not use a particular peice of software. Although it is enough to make me want to unsubsribe from the Gnu Darwin mailing list.
I suppose you don't want to hear about the plight of the carrots then...
" And the angel of the lord came unto me. snatching me up from my place of slumber, and took me on high, and higher still until we moved through the spaces betwixt the air itself. And he brought me into a vast farmland of our own midwest.
And as we descended, cries of impending doom arose from the soil. One thousand, nay, a million voices full of fear. and terror possessed me then.
And I begged: angel of the lord, what are these tortured screams? and the angel said unto me: these are the cries of the carrots. the cries of the carrot. you see, reverend maynard, tomorrow is harvest day, and to them, it is the holocaust.
And I sprang from my slumber drenched in sweat with the tears of one million terrified brothers and roared: hear me now, I have seen the light. they have a consciousness! They have a life! They have a soul. Damn you! let the rabbits wear glasses. save our brothers."
Later, Seeker
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