From esr at thyrsus.com Tue Mar 28 13:30:58 2006 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============4337337528683192019==" MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Eric S. Raymond To: devel at lists.fedoraproject.org Subject: Re: Fedora's way forward Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 13:30:25 -0500 Message-ID: <20060328183025.GD26482@thyrsus.com> In-Reply-To: 1143569195.3752.100.camel@yoda.loki.me --===============4337337528683192019== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Jesse Keating : > Users will take the > path of least resistance. Correct. And right now, their path of least resistance is Windows or a Mac. > We're trying to make it so that FOSS is that > path, but if !FOSS becomes an easier path, thats where users will go, > and we've lost the battle. I'm surprised that you of all people don't > see this. What I see is that !FOSS is already the easier path. We can't change that by refusing to support MP3. All we can do with that choice is make the road= to = open source unattractive because *it doesn't meet their needs*. Trying to tell them "well, you shouldn't want what you want" is just nuts. = It's denial. They'll write us off as kooks, and with good reason. -- = Eric S. Raymond --===============4337337528683192019==--