Alan Cox <alan(a)redhat.com>:
Perhaps, or maybe you were just like Canute only you were saying
that
the tide would come in....
Yes, I think that's arguably true about my original work identifying
the many-eyeballs effect and so forth. Richard Gabriel came within an
angstrom of getting all that ten years before I did in his "Worse is
Better" paper, and I've been saying for years that somebody else would have
between 1994-2000 if I hadn't.
The evangelism to the suits, though? Not so much. I went out on a hell
of a limb those first couple of years. We have the luxury of forgetting that
nowadays because the crazy/nutty things I was saying then turned into
conventional wisdom. Someday it will probably grow dim even in *my* mind
how much sweat it took for me to accomplish that. But it hasn't yet.
That sounds more like Ubuntu's goals than Fedora. Fedora is
intended to be
a testing ground for doing cool and exciting things with free software. In
the Ubuntu case you are making some interesting arguments, but Fedora isn't
intended to be Mum's new desktop, cool if it works out that way but its
not the design spec.
OK. So the next question is, do *Red Hat's* goals no longer include
world desktop domination? Because if that's true, I need to find a distro
that hasn't ... er ... lost its idealism.
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href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>