fedora mission (was Re: systemd and changes)

[Arthur Pemberton]

On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 1:11 AM, Jesse Keating <jkeating at j2solutions.net> wrote:
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> On 8/30/10 9:50 PM, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 12:36 AM, Jesse Keating
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>>> On 8/30/10 1:33 PM, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
>>>> Is this still unique?
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>>> I believe it is, particularly with our attention to freedom and upstream
>>> relationships, and our connection to arguably /the/ premiere enterprise
>>> Linux offering.
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>> The attention to freedom is not unique. The attention to upstream is
>> invisible to users.
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> We want to not just be compelling to users, but we want to be compelling
> to developers as well.
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> Our attention to freedom /when combined/ with all our other aspects does
> make a unique picture.  Not ever bit is going to be interesting to a
> casual user, or a upstream developer.  But each can find something
> useful in what we do.


So here's what I understand to be what you are suggesting as a
"mission": a strongly free Linux distro, with only bug fix updates
between releases, with an attention to tracking upstream.

Strongly free and tracking upstream is something developers would
appreciate, however bug fix only updates are often contrary to what
developers want and outlier users like myself.

Bug-fix updates benefit general users but general users often don't
like to bare with the additional complexity gained by being so
adherent to FOSS philosophy.

I am suggesting that the mission you would like is contradictory: not
that it cannot happen, but in that it represents an intersection of
people that is very small.

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