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posted by Steve Homepage E-mail, US, 16.04.2008, 21:27

> There is no "fpc" and "users". It is opensource, and all responsibility is
> shared between all interested parties.
No project really works that way. If everybody is responsible, then nobody is responsible and nothing gets done. But there is a core group that does take real responsibility and makes the serious decisions, like what will be in a package, when it will be released, etc.

> As said, it is no priority,
That's obvious.

> and if you want to speed up the priority, the only solution is to put in some work.
It is not one of my priorities. Sorry.

> > The wheel has been invented
>
> No. To stay in the analogy, it is more that somebody has drawn a rough
> sketch of a wheel, and then says "the problem is solved", and leaves it to
> others to implement and fit it under a series of cars.
A good description of how a large engineering project works, at least in the US - we have a division of labor between design and construction departments.

> Reuse of software is often portrait as easy, while it isn't.
Sometimes it's easy, sometimes it's not. Depends on how a project is organized.

> > if they don't want to roll along that's their
> > choice, which they certainly have the right to make. But there are no
> > purely technical obstacles.
>
> How do you know that if you haven't researched it? Is your knowledge of
> OS/2 and BeOS that well? :-)
OS/2, not too bad. BeOS, forget it - I hardly know what it is.

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