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Hello Duncan, |
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Thursday, January 9, 2014, 9:59:50 PM, you wrote: |
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Thank you for the reply. I started to comment first... but it was more |
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philosophy a mature and grown up, experienced man and I don't think |
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I have right to comment it. |
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Statistically if you have more users the probability of the system |
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survival of any architecture, philosophy or type is higher. People |
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learn, they're not fixed and if they at the beginning do not share |
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the philosophy of the system but they can use it - they may like it, |
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understand it and follow it and support later. Many people I asked |
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are not minding to help Gentoo getting better by turning on |
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feedback. If you remember - feedback worked well for Perl once and |
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many used it and Perl is very traditional. |
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It's like a chess game. You have the system in it's prime. There is |
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already one fork from Gentoo. There will be more. It's inevitable. You |
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have to understand that not all the developers share the same |
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philosophy - and it OK. |
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And they may fork Gentoo with time and pull half of the team to their |
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side. |
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When there is a competition between systems with equal philosophy the |
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only thing that stands between who is going to live and who is going |
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to die is the number of users. |
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The fight will focus not around philosophy or system but around gaining |
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user support. The competitor can build a better, more friendly system |
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sharing basically the same design and he will win it over. |
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To keep in power it's in your deepest interest to close the open gates that |
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invite competition while the power is in your hands. This is a failure |
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many grown up companies made they belive they're forever and gods. I could |
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share with you privately with several examples that prove that concept |
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wrong. |
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Your competitors will build basically the same system targeting the |
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same philosophy but more user oriented, friendly. User oriented - means |
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each user opinion matters. |
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There might be millions of users but each is treated like he is the only one. |
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PortageQOS is small step, it's not everything or main part of the |
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system, it's a just small contribution. But it will close the door and |
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you'll have another peaceful 8 years to rule. |
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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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> Actually, in that regard it's very possible that gentoo's long planned |
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> and worked toward cvs-to-git conversion will help finally bust that |
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> barrier for gentoo as well. Time will tell I guess, but that's one more |
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> reason to try to help make it happen. |
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Best regards, |
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Igor mailto:lanthruster@×××××.com |