Where Fedora Went Wrong (nice conclusion)

[Rahul Sundaram]

Mauriat M wrote:
> On 5/15/07, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>>
>> Yep. If half of the people who are willing to discuss the nature of
>> Fedora in length step further to actually contribute that would make a
>> pretty big difference but alas folks are more interested in calling it
>> unstable or wanting the distribution to including proprietary software
>> by default.
>>
>> Next time you want to complain ask yourself how much you have
>> contributed in anyway at all to a every growing collection of Free
>> software included in a distribution that you can get for free. That
>> includes a lot of work many of which is volunteer driven in maintaining
>> around 8000 packages, documentation, artwork, QA, release engineering,
>> infrastructure, marketing etc.
>>
>> You can choose to help.
> 
> Must I contribute to expect a somewhat stable and useful general
> purpose operating system?

It would be better if you would. You can choose to not contribute 
anything back and only expect to get everything for free but if 
everybody chooses to be selfish you wouldn't get what you are getting. 
This is a ecosystem that relies folks investing resources like their own 
time or money.

If you have the time to complain you have time to contribute. If you 
don't find this system suitable find another one. It's not like there is 
a death of choices. No point in constantly abusing the system while 
relying on it.

Rahul