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On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 5:19 PM, Barry Schwartz |
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<chemoelectric@×××××××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> Damien Levac <damien.levac@×××××.com> skribis: |
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>> My humble opinion: |
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>> If people want to work on a project, it is their own decision. |
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> That pertains to hobbyists. I’m purely a hobbyist, filling timek; I |
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> work on what I enjoy. Anyone who argues with that can keep it to |
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> themselves. |
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> But we are talking, instead, about profit and non-profit organizations |
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> that have goals and in some cases ask for our donations. Whose goals |
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> are being achieved? |
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You do need to consider the resources you're actually talking about |
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here. You can't compare the resources of a community-driven distro |
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like Gentoo to something like RedHat, and you can't even compare |
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something like RedHat with the likes of Google. At my workplace the |
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entire annual Gentoo budget would pay one employee for a few weeks |
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tops. Most of the more community-oriented distros try to use their |
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money as effort-multipliers. The Gentoo mailing lists, cvs, forums, |
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etc don't cost that much to run but they enable huge amounts of |
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community interaction. |
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And when you look at stuff like Freedesktop the goal is for you to be |
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able to plug a USB headset in and have it suddenly usable for phone |
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calls, just like on any other modern OS. Sure, fonts are also |
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something that can stand improvement, but they've actually come a long |
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way. I'd say that getting printers to work is more important - though |
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it is telling that even major vendors like Apple, Google, and |
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Microsoft haven't even tried to solve that problem on their new OSes. |
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Rich |
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