Comment Re:Focus, not features or programs (Score 1, Insightful) 141
Now consider some less focused, yet still popular, OSS projects: GNOME, KDE, Mozilla. They try to be all things to all people.
I don't think these examples really support your point. GNOME has been targeting a different audience than KDE since their 2.0 release by uncluttering and simplifying their desktop even to the point of alienating many old-school GNOME aficionados who had the (first) impression GNOME had been "dumbed down".
And as for Mozilla, remember it was based on a bloated and unfocused piece of proprietary software? First it had to be completely rewritten to be usable at all, and later there was a benign fork which turned out to be better. As a result, the Mozilla suite is now finally going modular. Could that have happened with a piece of proprietary software?
I don't think these examples really support your point. GNOME has been targeting a different audience than KDE since their 2.0 release by uncluttering and simplifying their desktop even to the point of alienating many old-school GNOME aficionados who had the (first) impression GNOME had been "dumbed down".
And as for Mozilla, remember it was based on a bloated and unfocused piece of proprietary software? First it had to be completely rewritten to be usable at all, and later there was a benign fork which turned out to be better. As a result, the Mozilla suite is now finally going modular. Could that have happened with a piece of proprietary software?
