On Thu, 2009-06-04 at 08:54 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
Conrad Meyer wrote:
> On Wednesday 03 June 2009 11:40:42 pm Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>> Conrad Meyer wrote:
>>> On Wednesday 03 June 2009 10:23:05 pm Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>>>> Let me try an analogy: How do you handle defects/malfunctions with your
>>>> car?
>>> Did a bunch of hobbyists from around the world build your car by
>>> communicating over the internet?
>> Have you ever seen an open source car?
>>
>> The Fedora "car" manufacturer is the "fedora community",
assembling it
>> from "upstream" components.
>>
>> Ralf
>
> That's the idea, opensource behaves completely different from a car
> manufacturer.
Wrong. It doesn't.
I don't think we have the power to (nor would we want to) force upstream
to do certain things in a certain way, for ridiculously low prices and
"no we won't pay you on delivery" but 3 months later. The relationship
between us and upstream is significantly different from a car
manufacturer and its suppliers.
Nils
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