<div>Well I can certainly respect that, but what good is innovation if nobody (or at least not enough) is going to use it. And I did think that providing a viable alternative to Windows was one of the objective of Linux. I didn't compare Fedora with Windows because it is accepted that Microsoft has a monopoly on the desktop OS market. It is within the Linux community where the question of popularity exists.
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<div>If not compromising the principles means less usable and less popular operating system, the I deeply believe that the priciples are wrong to start with. I understand this is a very strong statement, but I think the underlying principle of Free Software Foundation is tha software should be free for ALL and not only for those who are technical enough to understand it. I think we all would agree to it.
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<div>I order to abide by our principles I feel we must make our software more appealing and usable than the competition, for which the immediate goal is Ubuntu, then MAC and then ultimately challenge the supremacy of Windows.
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<div>I am not trying to start a flame war. After all we are all on the same side. I just wanted to contribute my thoughts.</div>
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<div>regards,</div>
<div>Mukul<br><br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/20/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Greg DeKoenigsberg</b> <<a href="mailto:gdk@redhat.com">gdk@redhat.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">On Thu, 20 Dec 2007, Mukul Dharwadkar wrote:<br><br>> It's really going to be very hard if we still continue to measure our
<br>> success on popularity in Developer community. Although it is a good<br>> thing to be accepted by Developers, the true measure of success is the<br>> acceptance by the user community in which, I am sorry to say, Ubuntu
<br>> beats Fedora hands down.<br><br>"True measure of success"?<br><br>The most persistent fallacy in the open source world is that desktop usage<br>by grandma and grandpa is the "true measure of success". If the "true
<br>measure of success" is number of novice desktop users, then Microsoft is<br>beating all of us by such a wide margin that we may as well not bother.<br><br>Ubuntu is extremely good at polishing what currently exists for new Linux
<br>users. That's a good goal. But it is not Fedora's primary goal.<br><br>Fedora's goal is to put together the best *and most free* general purpose<br>operating system with *the strongest community of contributors* in order
<br>to *drive innovation*.<br><br>> We have to come up with ways to make sure that Linux in general and<br>> specifically Fedora becomes the OS of choice. It's a large market out<br>> there and we can make it if we get our priorities right.
<br><br>I agree that we must keep working to make Fedora more useful to more<br>people. Note that the differences in that regard between Ubuntu and<br>Fedora shrink with every release.<br><br>We must not, however, compromise the Free Software principles that give us
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