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On Wed, 08 Oct 2014 08:34:10 -0400 |
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Phil Turmel <philip@××××××.org> wrote: |
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> You may think its absolutely realistic, but the market doesn't agree |
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> with you. Red Hat, SUSE, Canonical, et al call their products |
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> *distributions*, not *operating systems* because their customers don't |
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> want to create their own solutions. They want a collection of software |
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> pieces--kernel, libraries, applications--that solve their (end-user) |
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> problems. |
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Market??? This whole spiel sounds like the snooty squawking of some |
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MBA automaton. |
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FOSS is neither market-oriented nor market-driven. In fact, I would |
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hope that all FOSS developers, secretly or otherwise, give the middle-finger |
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salute to all market advocates. FOSS is motivated by a computer science idealism, |
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i.e. what is technically good and proper rules the day and let the market |
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be damned. |
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Are we to start judging merit by counting the number of users? Most |
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POS software packages (and I don't mean "point of sale") tend to be |
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quite popular because they cater to total idiots, and such useless statistics |
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would only appeal to a deluded and delirious marketdroid. |
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Red Hat, SUSE, Canonical, et. al. should fork off their corporate concerns |
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and leave the FOSS community entirely. Under their direction, we'll soon |
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be having "new and improved" Linux releases every Black Friday to snag |
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all the impulse buyers within the demented Xmas crowd. |
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