Editorial on competition and choice
M Daniel R Magarzo
b2.mdr.magarzo at gmail.com
Mon Sep 10 21:09:17 UTC 2007
El lun, 10-09-2007 a las 12:18 -0400, Paul Stauffer escribió:
> This bugs me:
>
> "ThinkPads booting into Ubuntu, and not Fedora, might soon be available from
> the computer stores near you. If that does not make Spevack at least mildly
> jealous, then I don't know what does."
>
> Why do so many people seem to want the distros to be jealous of each other?
>
> Ubuntu is doing their thing. Fedora is doing their thing. Those things
> aren't really the same thing. They each have their niche in the Linux
> ecosystem, and the successes and contributions of each distro are on the
> whole good for all the other distros too.
>
> If Fedora's user base never grew by a single additional user, but the
> project continued to make valuable contributions to the Linux community, and
> continued to push the development of quality open source software forward,
> then the project would still be a resounding success. Ubuntu's numbers have
> absolutely nothing to do with Fedora's success.
>
> - Paul
>
> --
> Paul Stauffer <paulds at bu.edu>
> Manager of Research Computing
> Computer Science Department
> Boston University
:-))) :-)))
Clouds, clouds, clouds, ...
Daniel
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