Brief diary of an F-7 installation

[Les Mikesell]

Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> Who picks the defaults and why?  
> 
> People who build the distribution.
> 
> I haven't seen any community poll or
>> feedback mechanism for what the most people would prefer as the default.
> 
> Community != democracy. Fedora in particular is more of a meritocratic 
> system.

What does that mean in terms of equivalent systems like desktop 
environments?  Does something 'invented here' automatically assume more 
merit than someone else's project?  Or does the guy doing the work of 
editing the file get his choice regardless of the effect on end users?

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