Actually it was. Current day Nautilus has little to do with the original scope and functionality of the project as envisioned (and promoted) by Eazel. It's like saying Hurd still exists. Yeah, but hardly anybody uses it and it failed to fulfill what it promised for 25 years.
> IIRC E17 is used on various phones
Yeah, which all of 5 people use, and one of them is Rasterman.
> Reiser killed someone
Isn't an often repeated premise of OSS that a project can keep on despite being abandoned by its' leaders?
> Parrot is still under development
Still in perpetual flux.
> Perpetual flux and incohesiveness is too management speak for me.
It's also something felt everyday by common people and expert hard core users alike.
> Look inside a big company, pretty much the same thing going on.
Companies tend not to fuck too much with the flagship programs, revenue streams, and seldom just for the "fun of it".
How many times, for example, has the KDE multimedia infrastructure been replaced with something entirely different only for this to happen again?
Actually it was. Current day Nautilus has little to do with the original scope and functionality of the project as envisioned (and promoted) by Eazel. It's like saying Hurd still exists. Yeah, but hardly anybody uses it and it failed to fulfill what it promised for 25 years.
> IIRC E17 is used on various phones
Yeah, which all of 5 people use, and one of them is Rasterman.
> Reiser killed someone
Isn't an often repeated premise of OSS that a project can keep on despite being abandoned by its' leaders?
> Parrot is still under development
Still in perpetual flux.
> Perpetual flux and incohesiveness is too management speak for me.
It's also something felt everyday by common people and expert hard core users alike.
> Look inside a big company, pretty much the same thing going on.
Companies tend not to fuck too much with the flagship programs, revenue streams, and seldom just for the "fun of it".
How many times, for example, has the KDE multimedia infrastructure been replaced with something entirely different only for this to happen again?