Editorial on competition and choice

[Paul Stauffer]

On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 09:12:09PM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20070910#feature

This bugs me:

"ThinkPads booting into Ubuntu, and not Fedora, might soon be available from
the computer stores near you. If that does not make Spevack at least mildly
jealous, then I don't know what does."

Why do so many people seem to want the distros to be jealous of each other?

Ubuntu is doing their thing.  Fedora is doing their thing.  Those things
aren't really the same thing.  They each have their niche in the Linux
ecosystem, and the successes and contributions of each distro are on the
whole good for all the other distros too.

If Fedora's user base never grew by a single additional user, but the
project continued to make valuable contributions to the Linux community, and
continued to push the development of quality open source software forward,
then the project would still be a resounding success.  Ubuntu's numbers have
absolutely nothing to do with Fedora's success.

- Paul

-- 
Paul Stauffer <paulds at bu.edu>
Manager of Research Computing
Computer Science Department
Boston University