Comments on: Smell my tires! http://www.contemporary-home-computing.org/car-metaphors/smell-my-tires/ Watching Analogies in the World of Computers Tue, 05 May 2026 02:57:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.2 By: Timokl http://www.contemporary-home-computing.org/car-metaphors/smell-my-tires/#comment-105 Timokl Sat, 31 Mar 2007 12:16:23 +0000 http://www.contemporary-home-computing.org/car-metaphors/smell-my-tires/#comment-105 Well, listening to Power-Point-Presentations can by a very exhausting eXperience, as Power-Point can pre-define with content templates what you say in what order. So, you need deliver something that sticks. If it also makes sense, that's a great plus albeit not a mandatory one. This Brent guy is right in one aspect - a successful open source project is definitely a really great brand. I mean - isn't the question whether you use Gnome or KDE not structurally the same as whether you use an Atari ST or an Amiga during the hacking heidays of the 1980's? You can add any other pair of open source projects that are used for the same purpose - be it MySQL vs. PostreSQL, Compiz vs. Beryl, or many others which just don't come up in my mind right now. Well, listening to Power-Point-Presentations can by a very exhausting eXperience, as Power-Point can pre-define with content templates what you say in what order. So, you need deliver something that sticks. If it also makes sense, that’s a great plus albeit not a mandatory one.

This Brent guy is right in one aspect - a successful open source project is definitely a really great brand. I mean - isn’t the question whether you use Gnome or KDE not structurally the same as whether you use an Atari ST or an Amiga during the hacking heidays of the 1980’s? You can add any other pair of open source projects that are used for the same purpose - be it MySQL vs. PostreSQL, Compiz vs. Beryl, or many others which just don’t come up in my mind right now.

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