links for 2006-10-12

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  1. By Planet GNOME on October 12, 2006 at 23:59

    October 12, 2006 10:18 PM

  2. By ...will he ever win? on October 13, 2006 at 06:01

    Jeff Waugh writes, “raised concerns about overselling Portland during the first DAM meeting, as it could harm long-term credibility with ISVs. Such unclear language has resulted in serious miscommunication…” That’s one way of putting it.

  3. By Linux Blog Aggregator on October 13, 2006 at 06:21

    links for 2006-10-12 October 13th, 2006 by jdub

  4. By Ian Murdock’s Weblog on October 13, 2006 at 12:08

    Jeff Waugh: “I raised concerns about overselling Portland during the first [OSDL Desktop Architects] meeting, as it could harm long-term credibility with ISVs. Such unclear language has resulted in serious miscommunication, and was not rectified in the 1.0.

  5. By dmarti's blog | LinuxWorld Community on October 13, 2006 at 12:43

    Jeff Waugh writes, “raised concerns about overselling Portland during the first DAM meeting, as it could harm long-term credibility with ISVs. Such unclear language has resulted in serious miscommunication…” That’s one way of putting it.

  6. By tecosystems » because technology is just another ecosystem on October 13, 2006 at 23:57

    messaged is problematic. Going back to SuSE’s decision to ship and support both GTK/GNOME and Qt/KDE, I’ve been skeptical of approaches that try to hedge their user interface bets. I do happen to believe that Project Portland is important, but like Jeff, Ian, and Murray Cumming I’m concerned that some of the claims being made about Portland are setting up unrealistic - and probably unmeetable - expectations. Portland, for example, wouldn’t seem to solve

  7. By Planet Debian on October 14, 2006 at 20:56

    Jeff Waugh: “I raised concerns about overselling Portland during the first [OSDL Desktop Architects] meeting, as it could harm long-term credibility with ISVs. Such unclear language has resulted in serious miscommunication, and was not rectified in the 1.0.

  8. By tecosystems » because technology is just another ecosystem on October 20, 2006 at 08:24

    messaged is problematic. Going back to SuSE’s decision to ship and support both GTK/GNOME and Qt/KDE, I’ve been skeptical of approaches that try to hedge their user interface bets. I do happen to believe that Project Portland is important, but like Jeff, Ian, and Murray Cumming I’m concerned that some of the claims being made about Portland are setting up unrealistic - and probably unmeetable - expectations. Portland, for example, wouldn’t seem to solve