A vision statement

inode0 inode0 at gmail.com
Mon Aug 30 03:20:37 UTC 2010


On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 8:38 PM, Jon Stanley <jonstanley at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 7:19 PM, inode0 <inode0 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I agree with Colin about replacing users with something more general.
>> We want our work to improve the lives of everyone.
>
> I'll agree but nitpick - how can we improve someone's life if they
> don't use our product? Hence, users seems to be appropriate to me
> here, even if those "users" may not be aware they're using Fedora
> (much like I'm sure many Android users don't know or care that Linux
> is powering the device).

Oh, maybe something like open source is used on super computers,
research happens, breakthroughs are made, and the lives of people who
have never heard of Fedora are changed for the better. There really
are all sorts of ways the lives of people are changed by things they
don't use.

John


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