Re: "expected gains in market share"

["Eric S. Raymond" <esr thyrsus com>]

Cam <camilo mesias co uk>:
> Do you really think that a substantial population of adopters are ready 
> and waiting but held back because mp3 isn't in Fedora?

I think there is a very large population of potential users who would
consider lack of MP3 and other multimedia playback a showstopper --
that it's one of the checklist features nontechnical users look for in
2006.
 
> I think there are better goals that would increase adoption:

I have no argument with any of those goals.  Whether they're "better"
in terms of being more effective at raising market share, I dunno.
Wider availability of preinstalls sounds nice, but I don't notice
emachines or WalMart penguin boxes taking over the world.
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		<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>