Fedora's way forward
Eric S. Raymond
esr at thyrsus.com
Wed Mar 29 01:02:35 UTC 2006
Alan Cox <alan at redhat.com>:
> Perhaps, or maybe you were just like Canute only you were saying that
> the tide would come in....
Yes, I think that's arguably true about my original work identifying
the many-eyeballs effect and so forth. Richard Gabriel came within an
angstrom of getting all that ten years before I did in his "Worse is
Better" paper, and I've been saying for years that somebody else would have
between 1994-2000 if I hadn't.
The evangelism to the suits, though? Not so much. I went out on a hell
of a limb those first couple of years. We have the luxury of forgetting that
nowadays because the crazy/nutty things I was saying then turned into
conventional wisdom. Someday it will probably grow dim even in *my* mind
how much sweat it took for me to accomplish that. But it hasn't yet.
> That sounds more like Ubuntu's goals than Fedora. Fedora is intended to be
> a testing ground for doing cool and exciting things with free software. In
> the Ubuntu case you are making some interesting arguments, but Fedora isn't
> intended to be Mum's new desktop, cool if it works out that way but its
> not the design spec.
OK. So the next question is, do *Red Hat's* goals no longer include
world desktop domination? Because if that's true, I need to find a distro
that hasn't ... er ... lost its idealism.
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