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Originally Posted by wmarone View Post
Err, not it's not. Unless you think that diversity is bad, and that we should all think and do the exact same thing...


Hardly, but you sure feel content to bash it with misinformation.


Which you could totally have that on pretty much any OS, but their management wasn't competent enough to see it through. Hopefully someone else will pick up from where they left off and run with it and give me what I want.


Largely it won't affect "common" people because they don't mess with the system on that level. Of course, I take everything ericsson says with a grain of salt.


Indeed, they want to do things their own way. How terrible.


Yes, they may completely not care. This isn't a problem (unless you have a hard time with people doing things differently from you.)
OK so diversity is good and fragmentation is bad? I don't see the differense, only different semantics. Diversity is not bad per se, but when it makes everyone (re)inventing the core wheels over and over again, it is not good for business. Diversity in apps is good for business, diversity in core components is not, not if you want diversity in apps. Qt will theoretically solve lots of fragmentation problems, but only if Qt is not fragmented.

Linux is about making "yet another" - something that does some core functionality. Not better than the others, only different and incompatible with the others.