On 16/11/10 22:06, Heiko Baums wrote:
Am Tue, 16 Nov 2010 21:54:23 +1000
schrieb Allan McRae<[email protected]>:
It is true as long as the developers say it is true. Just because I
tell GM their car is an aeroplane does not mean they will start
flying.
Wrong.
Really, cars will start flying if we just tell the manufactures it is
so? Because I have been waiting for that for a long time...
It is true as soon as a distro becomes more and more popular.
And this is the case for Arch Linux. As long as a distro is unknown and
only used by a few people, mainly its developers, this distro may only
be from the devs for the devs. But as soon as it is mentioned together
with and equivalent to the other big distros and gets more popular this
is not true anymore independent from what a single developer says.
But what actually makes you think that you can expect anything from the
distro apart from whatever the developers decide? Just because people
use the distribution does not mean their opinions count for anything.
In fact, the opinions of >99% of the users of this distro do not count
for anything because they contribute nothing towards the distribution.
Now, if someone wants to pay me and others to develop the distro, then
their opinions will count. Otherwise, I am "working" for free and so I
am king of what I decide to do.
Otherwise you should write a big note on the homepage and/or the
download page that this distro is free but not meant to be used for the
public. "Feel free to use it but don't expect anything. This distro is
only meant to be used by us developers." Or something like this. Maybe
a bit exaggerated.
Slightly exaggerated. But perhaps we do need that to keep people from
forming such unfounded ideas about their opinions counting towards
anything around here.
Allan
