Draft Product Description for Fedora Workstation

[Bastien Nocera]

You're confusing stand-alone applications and extensions to the core desktop.
An easy mistake to make.

----- Original Message -----
> 
> Le Dim 3 novembre 2013 19:34, drago01 a écrit :
> > On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 6:44 PM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> since it is a free operating system it does not need to be commerical
> >> successfull and so it needs to satisfy it's *existing* and potential
> >> userbase
> >> but not obsessive attrative for *everybody*
> >
> >
> > No. If you loose to the competion you become irrelevant which means
> > less / no support from third parties, less (new) contributors etc etc.
> 
> The competition worked hard at API stability. Even abandoned experiments
> like silverlight are going to work identically for years in new os
> versions.
> 
> GNOME decided to break it all the time (can't even get extensions work
> from one gnome-shell version to the next one and no gracefully disabling
> is still functional breakage).
> 
> And thus it 'lost to the competition'. No amount of indirection and
> sandboxing is going to hide the utter lack of regard for stability of our
> core desktop project
> 
> --
> Nicolas Mailhot
> 
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