Re: Editorial on competition and choice

[M Daniel R Magarzo <b2 mdr magarzo gmail com>]

El lun, 10-09-2007 a las 12:18 -0400, Paul Stauffer escribió:

> This bugs me:
> 
> "ThinkPads booting into Ubuntu, and not Fedora, might soon be available from
> the computer stores near you. If that does not make Spevack at least mildly
> jealous, then I don't know what does."
> 
> Why do so many people seem to want the distros to be jealous of each other?
> 
> Ubuntu is doing their thing.  Fedora is doing their thing.  Those things
> aren't really the same thing.  They each have their niche in the Linux
> ecosystem, and the successes and contributions of each distro are on the
> whole good for all the other distros too.
> 
> If Fedora's user base never grew by a single additional user, but the
> project continued to make valuable contributions to the Linux community, and
> continued to push the development of quality open source software forward,
> then the project would still be a resounding success.  Ubuntu's numbers have
> absolutely nothing to do with Fedora's success.
> 
> - Paul
> 
> -- 
> Paul Stauffer <paulds bu edu>
> Manager of Research Computing
> Computer Science Department
> Boston University




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Daniel