Fedora's way forward

[Alan Cox]

On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 01:22:43PM -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> Oh, I have learned from history all right.  You might recall that I
> learned enough to do some of the heaviest work at busting us out of
> our comfortable techie ghetto.

Perhaps, or maybe you were just like Canute only you were saying that
the tide would come in....

> The reality, in this case, is that ordinary computer users simply
> don't give a shit about anything but "does it do what I want at a
> price I'm willing to pay"?  If we don't meet those expectations, all

That sounds more like Ubuntu's goals than Fedora. Fedora is intended to be
a testing ground for doing cool and exciting things with free software. In
the Ubuntu case you are making some interesting arguments, but Fedora isn't
intended to be Mum's new desktop, cool if it works out that way but its
not the design spec.

Alan