<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 21 April 2014 11:19, Stephen Gallagher <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sgallagh@redhat.com" target="_blank">sgallagh@redhat.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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</div><div class="">On 04/21/2014 01:08 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote:<br>
> On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 12:37:57 -0400, Stephen Gallagher<br>
> <<a href="mailto:sgallagh@redhat.com">sgallagh@redhat.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>>> Does Fedora need to be that gateway OS? Maybe Ubuntu would be a<br></div><div class="">
> better intermediate step?<br>
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</div>If Fedora isn't that gateway OS, why are we bothering? What makes it<br>
likely that any user would switch to us if they've entered the FOSS<br>
community via Ubuntu? (Don't get me wrong, this is a question we also<br>
need to answer, but I don't think it's wise of us to be recommending<br>
that Ubuntu handles gathering our new users for us.)<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>It is an interesting question... "why are we bothering?"</div><div><br></div><div>When people bother because they need to be THE gateway.. they are setting themselves for a lifetime of disappointment. That ship sails completely with little to no control.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I have found that if you are going to bother.. do it because it is making something better for you, for something you care about. That is stuff you can control and not items left to the fact that people choose to use what everyone else uses or by the fact its name sounds exotic or they like Orange over Blue.</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr">Stephen J Smoogen.<br><br></div>
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