Editorial on competition and choice
Max Spevack
mspevack at redhat.com
Tue Sep 11 19:59:13 UTC 2007
On Mon, 10 Sep 2007, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20070910#feature
>
> "The first step would be for Spevack (and other distribution project
> managers) to admit that Ubuntu has done something right. The second
> would be to recognise that popularity isn't "fanboyism." It's all very
> nice to say in an interview that "our distribution is the best and
> that people will eventually notice." The uneasy truth is, however,
> that people aren't choosing Fedora, Mandriva or openSUSE, they are
> choosing Ubuntu. And while it's great to see so much enthusiasm for a
> Linux distro, I feel uneasy about the growing dominance of one sole
> project, no matter how good, user-friendly or innovative it is."
For better or worse:
http://spevack.livejournal.com/26654.html
--Max
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