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On Friday 18 January 2008, Thufir wrote: |
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> On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 10:00:51 +0000, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> >> Let's turn this around: if Gentoo were to attract a larger user |
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> >> base I posit that this would attract more developers. |
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> > How do you draw that conclusion? How would attracting users who are |
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> > unwilling to read documentation and get their hands dirty increase |
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> > the number of potential developers? |
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> Taken to the extreme, if *all* the ubuntu users (to pick on ubuntu |
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> for a minute) suddenly switched to gentoo I would expect the ubuntu |
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> developers to follow. |
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Nope. The Ubuntu developers would probably just carry on doing what they |
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doing now - developing on Ubuntu. What makes you think they'd change? |
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I'm getting the feeling that you think the whole world works the way you |
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work and have yet to realize that other people are different from you. |
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And that groups have different priorities to what you have. |
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alan |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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