Linux is not about choice [was Re: Fedora too cutting edge?]

[Christopher Aillon]

On 01/10/2008 02:14 AM, David Zeuthen wrote:
> Seriously. People. What the hell happened to simplicity and building a
> free OS for the world that just works? Is the state of Fedora really in
> such a bad shape that people think it's necessary have craptastic
> options like "what kernel would you like today?". Seriously, things like
> that is just masturbation and we in Fedora should be above that. I feel
> that people wanting this are treating Fedora like it's a playground for
> their Toy OS ideas. Playing classic cards like "RH vs. community" and
> "this or that committee says so" to justify their "ideas". It's
> seriously tiring. Is this what Fedora is becoming? Because if it is,
> I'll find something else to spend my time on.


The Praeto principle is relevant here.  The more software we have, the 
less time contributors have to spend time on fixing bugs in a random 
project (let's say the Firewire stack as a random example) if they 
wanted to because they have to worry about fixing bugs in the packages 
they maintain.