[webteam] objectivity

[Sander Devrieze]

2007/7/12, Kevin Smith <kevin at kismith.co.uk>:
> On 12 Jul 2007, at 21:08, Sander Devrieze wrote:
> > You understand me wrong: I'm not talking about aggresive competition
> > like you have in mind, but about constructive competition. See also my
> > first email to this list where I am talking about collaboration
> > amongst projects. HTH ;-)
>
> I don't think you can have it both ways, either you're trying to
> increase the competition between clients, or you're trying to
> increase the collaboration. I'd be far happier if we dropped all the
> comments about competition from our ideas and just focused on serving
> the audience as best we can.

In aggressive competition I see:
* implemeting unstandard protocol extensions
* not working together with other projects during implementation of a
XEP (e.g. reporting bugs)

Constructive competition:
* making a sport of implementing the latest and newest XEP versions
(this would help to fix problems like MUC support in all clients but
Psi some time ago ;-P )
* contributing implementation difficulties to the protocol authors
* working together with other projects that also implement this XEP or
want to implement this XEP (e.g. reporting bugs and sharing
implementation tips)
* goal: fast and wide-spread adoptation of new protocol features in
the Jabber world to better compete with the outside world (other
protocols including the proprietary protocols)...it should be possible
to take over the lead in much more areas ;-)

PS: you also can have bad collaboration like cartels. So, it's no
black and white story :-)

-- 
Mvg, Sander Devrieze.