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Am 10.01.2014 13:10, schrieb Igor: |
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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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There is no really competition for the non-enterprise systems. It is a |
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co-existance (one might even call it some kind of symbiosis). |
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Please take your business nonsense somewhere else. Honestly, you sound |
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like some suit with his powerpoint slides talking about buzz-words like |
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'competitors', 'keeping in power', 'QoS' … |
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There were also numerous threads already about the very same topic. Most |
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came to the conclusions that |
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a) Gentoo is not dying |
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b) the numbers used as arguments are inaccurate at best (how do you |
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count 'Gentoo users'? And do you want users or machines? And what with |
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persons using different systems) |
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- René |
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