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Hello Chris, |
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Friday, January 10, 2014, 1:08:39 AM, you wrote: |
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> Right here is the big problem: you're not looking at this from the |
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> perspective of the average Gentoo developer. We don't care about market |
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> share. We don't care whether we're on top for another few years. There |
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> are several forks of Gentoo. I doubt most devs care about them. I |
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> personally know that we're not going to compete with Debian, which has a |
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> huge contributor, or Ubuntu or Red Hat, which have whole companies |
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> behind them. You're selling this as if you're selling to a company which |
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> wants to be on the top of the market and beating out competitors, and |
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> that's not what we are. We are a source-based distro that requires some |
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> effort from users, and people want that or they don't want it. |
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>> What we need is a vote YES or NO. If you against it - vote NO. It's |
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>> perfectly normal, if there would be no NO there would be no need voting. |
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Thank you for you opinion. |
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The competition in open source world is much harder than with |
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commercial software. 3 commercial systems share 96% of the users. |
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1,6% of the users are shared by 296 Linux distros |
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You may think that you're outside this rules but the competition is natural |
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on the planet and Gentoo is certainly competing weather you want it or not. |
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Competition was long before a human foot stood on the ground for the first |
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time :-) And suddenly there is no competition in Linux world - do you really |
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belive in it? |
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Best regards, |
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Igor mailto:lanthruster@×××××.com |
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