No more right click terminal

[Daniel Roesen]

On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 02:38:34PM -0600, Stuart Jansen wrote:
> Your influence is directly proportional to the value of your
> contribution--and talk is cheap.

Wrong. Read: http://www.fedora.redhat.com/about/leadership.html

Red Hat has the ultimate influence. Red Hat pays the folks putting
Fedora together. There is no "community thang". It's Red Hat plus
a few hand-selected outside supporters. Especially look at the chapter
"Voting".

After all, things happen the way Red Hat wants it. There's nothing wrong
about it, but please stop this "community" marketing then. And given
recent dominant communication by some Red Hat folks and... uhm...
close associates, Red Hat doesn't want to hear about what the user
base wants... the user base should tell upstream. That's IMHO against
the "we seek rough consensus"... at least if "we" does include more than
Red Hat internal cube-to-cube talks and perhaps some limited discussion
with outsiders in a read-only mailing list upon invitation (or
whatever).

My only chance is to discuss those fundamental problems in order to
try moving things into a better (for the user at least) direction. I
don't have the time nor knowledge nor energy for more. Linux & Fedora is
for sure not my main hobby anymore, nor my profession. It is a tool with
which I try to do my job and follow my hobbies. If this tool starts
diverting from me needs too much, I try to communicate this to the vendor
of the tool. They can either accept this constructive criticism
(remember: constructiveness is NOT defined by attached patch, but by
having a possible solution path provided, at least describing in detail
what's wrong) and try to do something about it, or they can say "we
don't care, go away". If the distro vendor cares about the users, he
won't say the latter.


Regards,
Daniel

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