If open source is all about choice, how come our community likes to fight over these choices so much. Everyday we argue over RPM vs. DEB, KDE vs. Gnome, Ubuntu vs. Fedora Core vs OpenSUSE vs. [insert your favorite distro here], and the never ending battle of VI vs. Emacs.
Lately the Gnome vs. KDE battle has recently heated up, with Linus Torvalds taking some pot shots at Gnome. It is a shame, after the lackluster release of Windows Vista, that the Linux community can’t put aside their differences and really show what Linux is capable of. The truth is that KDE and Gnome could learn a lot from each other.
One thing KDE and Gnome developers could do is get rid of the idea KDE/Gnome applications. Design a framework where applications could be build for either desktop environment with the look and feel and system integration working on either desktop environment. I’m not a programmer, so this may be impossible.
