Re: Can't X be elemenated?

David Lang
2003-10-07T19:12:18Z

On Tue, 7 Oct 2003, Pavel Machek wrote:

> >
> > And yet.. there are times when I need something VERY light weight, and
> > globally portable. So I started my own for a specific application
> > where
>
> Well, in one of previous mails I said that "one per goal" is the right
> thing. So it is okay for "small" toolkits to exists, but I do not like
> qt vs. gtk, because they have identical goals.
>
> Anyway, this is off-topic for linux-kernel, and I guess we should end
> here.

*BSD and Linux have the same goals (at least as close as GTK and QT do),
does this mean that Linus should not have started writing Linux?

David Lang

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