Re: [OS:N:] Developing for developers and users

[Kevin Cole <kjcole gri gallaudet edu>]

I'll go with Matt on that. Or at least I THINK I'm agreeing. ;-)

One of the things I like about Linux is a powerful command line and
the ability to string lots of little things together to do custom
stuff.  I see these monolithic programs that try to be a web-browser,
mail program, calendar, addressbook, back-scratcher, word processor,
spreadsheet, checkbook balancer, presentation, database, babysitter,
veg-o-matic, and I fail to see the advantage of bundling them all
together.  Granted the components are used by a lot of people and it's
nice to have all of them available.  But simultaneously?

For a better approach (at least in concept), take Mozilla:  People
were complaining, as I understand it, about it getting bloated.  Enter
Firefox and Thunderbird, which are usable as separate components that
know how to work together.  That, to me is the Unix/Linux Way. ;-)

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