DE discussion summary

Nikos Roussos comzeradd at fedoraproject.org
Tue Feb 11 08:51:08 UTC 2014


On Mon, 2014-02-10 at 20:07 -0500, Alex GS wrote:
>         I want to make an OS, not to read statistics all day. If you
>         want to read statistics and conduct research, feel free to do
>         it on your own time, and don't waste mine with meaningless
>         messages to a public list.
> 
> 
> I'm not on the Working Group, I don't work for Red Hat, it's not my
> job to do research and analyze data, that's their job and nobody's
> doing it.  Where's the data that backs up all of these decisions?
> That's all I'm asking.  Nobody has even bothered to write a formal
> research report or even reference reports from organizations like the
> IDC or even articles on Wikipedia.  Google makes data driven decisions
> based on rational logic.  So does Apple and their success shows this.
> Microsoft has made poor choices because of internal politics and
> because they ignored the data.

But we are not a company (like Google or Apple), we are a community
project. So the data we want to make a decision like this shouldn't be
just from users, but also about contributors. If most of our
contributors are putting most of their time in a DE project, then you
have your answer.

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