Editorial on competition and choice

[Imtiaz Rahi]

Its not about jealousy in between distros.
It's about what making Ubuntu different that it reach lot more people than
Fedora. Obviously, they have done something good in their distro and with
their marketing that they are getting such acceptance.
I don't want to see Fedora being a niche distro, I want to see people using
it on their desktop.
Browsing, emailing, watching movie, listening to songs, playing games etc.

Ofcourse, different distros will contribute in different level and I have no
doubt Fedora makes significant contribution.
But when new people are not coming to Fedora or Fedora is choice of very
small amount of user, then I would say that project have some problem. Also,
it means that project was successful but not at that moment.
Your current success does not stay much long. We always need to do something
better to even keep that success level.

And from marketing point of view its a disaster that you are getting new
client and losing market share.
We must be inventive and find new ways to make Fedora reach lot more people.
With new people, you get stronger, fresh minds interested in you invest
their time and money in you.
I hope always remember this and its always what people thinks about matters,
how they perceive you.

Cheers,
Imtiaz Rahi


On 9/10/07, Paul Stauffer <paulds at bu.edu> wrote:
>
> 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
>
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> Manager of Research Computing
> Computer Science Department
> Boston University
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