Disenchantment

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Posted by srdiamond15
2005-12-01 23:38:48

<However, what disenchants me is that it seems, lacking any official explanation from Kinook as to why integration was dropped, that the appearance of a third-party Firefox extensions called Launchy may have convinced Kinook they didn’t have to go to the trouble of creating their own integration wiith Firefox.>

Why exactly would this be disenchanting? What’s bad about relying on third party integration, as opposed to in-house reinvention of everything? Isn’t this the way software is _supposed_ to work, by integration not by duplication? Shouldn’t the judgment be based on how well the integration works, not based on who makes it.

And most of all, why _shouldn’t_ the Open Source community be the ones *responsible* for integration. I mean, these products are supposed to be FREE. How free are they if commercial development prices rise because developers have to integrate with Firefox, to satisfy 10% of the users who happen to be almost as demanding, fanatic, and obnoxious as some Macintosh users?

Stephen R. Diamond

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