Re: Sorbet on Fedora's future

Do what thou wilt
shall be the whole of the Law.

i'd like to make a few points:

On 3/19/10, Marcel Rieux <m.z.rieux@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

(1) The only option available in my Gigabyte MA770T-UD3P's BIOS
offering only options for entering passwords, for exemple.

see:http://www.openfirmware.info/Welcome_to_OpenBIOS

not breaking stable releases is the most
fundamental Fedora rule, as expressed here in the Stable release
update vision:

This, and more very important stuff, under "Vision Statement" at this URL:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Stable_release_updates_vision

see:https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Project_Wiki "What's The
Fedora Project?"
/* "stable release" seems be be a recent development */


It's very strange, but it seems that open-source developers like to
pay their bills just like anybody. As more and more major companies
are entering the "open-source market", Nokia and Intel, for example,
who's going to be left developing open-source for nothing in project
that more and more will look rather futile, compared to mainstream?

Because, believe it or not, open source is now becoming mainstream, As
I explained here:

(1) Please don't bring forward this nonsense about their contribution
to WebKit. WebKit was a fork from KHTML, a GPLed project. So the code
had to be opened. and whatever contribution Darwin makes to the open
source community pretty much amount to a drop of water in the sea.


At 19 years old. Linux is certainly not a new kid on the block
anymore. How come, even with Ubuntu, it is still howering at around 1%
of the market share? How come all the brawlers who invade Linux
groups/forums/lists are still allowed to bash new users pretending
that market share is not important in order to be accepted in
standards definition, that they'll still be surfing the net with Lynx
ten years from now?


Can't anybody notice that traditional little budget open-source is
right in the middle of the track where the large corporations'
open-source is riding full steam head?


IMO, Fedora releases will have to become much more stable and urgency
to get more market share will have to be established as a clear
priority. Very F-A-S-T. The Stable release update vision should be
followed "à la lettre".


1) "market share" is not as important as what you do to get it.
2) "open source" is not the same as free software.
see:http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html




Love is the law, love under will.

charles zeitler
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