Corporate sponsorship ( was Re: Going passive )

["Jóhann B. Guðmundsson"]

On 11/10/2010 01:07 PM, Matt Domsch wrote:
> I've never seen anyone, in any office or role, actively set out to
> destroy the Community, or other individuals' involvement, or ramrod
> some unspecified corporate agenda down the throats of contributors.

Well it's a question of certain attitude towards other *DE within our 
community does not fall under that category.

You can look at it in various way but it seems to be systematic pattern 
in setting stone in their path throughout Fedora history.
They don't get equal presentation on our web page, often decision are 
made without their involvement which directly affect them and their 
work  and so on and so fourth.

This kind of behaviour directly or indirectly hinders the growth in the 
micro community surrounding them hence they will never be able to stand 
a chance gain more contributors and live up to their own full potentials.

Personally I've never seen the reason why we have to push and promote a 
single *DE given the diversity of our community ( or target a single set 
of user base for that matter ) as I see it people want to run the same 
OS and the same set of application on their workstation,laptop,Tablet pc 
and their phone and have for several years now.

Needles to say Google and Apple realized this and as things are now that 
fight is between IOS and Android and none of the *DE we ship ( and even 
other OS out there )  are even close to compete against them heck they 
have to play like 2 years of catching up and bring some fresh user 
experience to table if they are going to succeed so I honestly do not 
see the point why this attitude carries on.

As far as I see eventually the one OS and the DE on top of it which 
combines the best experience combined between all those devices is the 
one that will stand victorious and claim the market out there.

Just my 2. cents on the whole *DE mess..

JBG