Ubuntu 8.04 and KDE

[D. Michael McIntyre]

On Sunday 30 December 2007, Derek Broughton wrote:
> But that means that it's always to our 
> advantage to have development occuring on as many fronts as possible. --

Talking about evolution, and organic stuff, I started thinking about 
polarizing software pairs all the way back to before the DOS days.  It's 
nothing new.  Every niche has at least two competitors in the arena; each 
with its own rabid fan base.  Until Microsoft buys one of them, and kills it.

Their practice is like forced inbreeding.  They buy a competing product and 
kill it off, forcing everyone to migrate.  Everyone ends up with the same 
DNA, so to speak, and it leads to the same sorts of problems in software that 
it does in biology.  Weird diseases, high susceptibility to infections, weak 
constitution, etc.

We have the opposite here, with interbreeding writ large.  I guess you can 
argue we take it too far in the other direction though.  When you have gnomes 
bred with kdedids in 42 different flavors, it can start to look like one of 
Mephisto's five-assed monkeys.
-- 
D. Michael McIntyre