On Mon, 2014-02-10 at 20:07 -0500, Alex GS wrote:
I want to make an OS, not to read statistics all day. If you
want to read statistics and conduct research, feel free to do
it on your own time, and don't waste mine with meaningless
messages to a public list.
I'm not on the Working Group, I don't work for Red Hat, it's not my
job to do research and analyze data, that's their job and nobody's
doing it. Where's the data that backs up all of these decisions?
That's all I'm asking. Nobody has even bothered to write a formal
research report or even reference reports from organizations like the
IDC or even articles on Wikipedia. Google makes data driven decisions
based on rational logic. So does Apple and their success shows this.
Microsoft has made poor choices because of internal politics and
because they ignored the data.
But we are not a company (like Google or Apple), we are a community
project. So the data we want to make a decision like this shouldn't be
just from users, but also about contributors. If most of our
contributors are putting most of their time in a DE project, then you
have your answer.