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On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 04:10:18PM +0400, Igor wrote: |
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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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Really? What market? Last I looked, more Linux systems were being run |
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on processors than any other single kernel. |
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Don't confuse desktops for "all of computing". |
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> 1,6% of the users are shared by 296 Linux distros |
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Really? And what is the number of total users you are talking about |
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here? |
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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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No, we aren't competing with anyone, please realize that this is not how |
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Linux distros and the ecosystem works at all. |
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Remember, Red Hat is Gentoo's engineering team :) |
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good luck, |
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greg k-h |