Editorial on competition and choice

[Max Spevack]

On Mon, 10 Sep 2007, Rahul Sundaram wrote:

> http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20070910#feature
>
> "The first step would be for Spevack (and other distribution project 
> managers) to admit that Ubuntu has done something right. The second 
> would be to recognise that popularity isn't "fanboyism." It's all very 
> nice to say in an interview that "our distribution is the best and 
> that people will eventually notice." The uneasy truth is, however, 
> that people aren't choosing Fedora, Mandriva or openSUSE, they are 
> choosing Ubuntu. And while it's great to see so much enthusiasm for a 
> Linux distro, I feel uneasy about the growing dominance of one sole 
> project, no matter how good, user-friendly or innovative it is."

For better or worse:

http://spevack.livejournal.com/26654.html

--Max