Fedora Present and Future: a Fedora.next 2014 Update (Part I, "Why?")

[Bill Oliver]

On Mon, 24 Mar 2014, lee wrote:

> Bill Oliver <vendor at billoblog.com> writes:
>
>> On Sun, 23 Mar 2014, lee wrote:
>>
>>> [snip]
>>> If she had known that she didn`t need to throw in this or that, wouldn`t
>>> that be easier for everyone?
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Not necessarily.  Sometimes neither that absent-minded aunt nor the
>> avaricious nephew know what is most pleasing until it's taken out and
>> played with.
>
> That can be an important thing to do.  It requires listening to the
> users and informing and preparing them beforehand, and you have to have
> something available to fall back to, or a fix, in case the new toy
> doesn`t work out.  If you leave them suddenly stranded like Debian did,
> they will leave you behind.
>
>> Much of what we consider very important today was considered stupid
>> when it first came out.
>
> Like?
>

Well, the automobile, aircraft, and personal computer immediately come
to mind.

billo