News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Microsoft Is Now 'Open by Default', Says Xamarin Founder Miguel de Icaza. Parent comment

Re:Microsoft Is Now 'Open by Default', Says Xamarin Founder ... by deckard1 on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @03:17PM (#12903554)
No idea why you're getting downvotes. You're completely right.

I was there when GNOME started. Was working heavily with GTK+ and GIMP at the time. Most of GNOME was tossed together haphazardly in a mad dash to catch up with KDE. There were astroturfing campaigns against KDE/Qt, organized on the GIMP IRC servers. The hate on Slashdot towards KDE was crazy, and much of it coming directly from GNOME camp. GNOME 1.x was a total shitshow. The code was horrid, and nothing was stable at all. Luckily their poor standards of code quality never hurt GTK+ much, as the GIMP guys still knew what the hell they were doing.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Microsoft Is Now 'Open by Default', Says Xamarin Founder ... by anonbanker on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @04:42PM (#12904211)
Remember that KDE/Qt were not licensed under anything GPL-compatible at the time, hence the reason GNOME was started in the first place.

KDE was indeed much better. GNOME 1.x was awful. I and others like me still used GNOME 1.x, because I wanted a free desktop environment.

You weren't the only one on #gimp; don't pretend GIMP had a much better class of developers. Remember GEGL used to refer to hairy parts of the codebase (Genetically-Engineered Goat, Large) that people were afraid of touching.

[ Parent | on HN ]