is it the future?

[Bill Oliver]

On Fri, 12 Sep 2014, Ralf Corsepius wrote:

> On 09/12/2014 04:13 AM, Bill Oliver wrote:
>
>>  And I'm not saying that it's all bad -- open source systems go the way
>>  developers want it to go,
> I'd consider this to be an urban legend, which may have applied in the past. 
> These days open source systems big business and go the way, the companies 
> behind them drive it. This is not limited to systemd but applies many major 
> SW components, too.
>
> We users are passengers without any influence on the directions Linux and OSS 
> is taking.
>
> Ralf
>

You may be right.  It sort of seems that Ubuntu and Android really
changed the climate.  My perspective mostly comes from working on a
couple of small apps, driven by a small user community.

billo