On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 7:25 PM, Michael Stone <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 06:12:40PM -0500, Walter Bender wrote: > > Can you please cite a few examples to help ground me further? > > Let's try: > > * the Etoys/Debian fight? > * the F6/F7 timeframe Java fight? > * the Debian/Fedora fight? (and the Ubuntu/Debian fight?) > * the activity packaging formats fight? > * the initscripts fight? > * the vserver fight? > * the libertas fight(s)? > * the Bitfrost/____ fight? > * the Journal/file manager fight? > * the livecd-tools / pilgrim+puritan fight? > * the stock vs. patched kernel fight? > * the UY, ET, and NE modification fights? > * deciding how and where to seek donations to OLPC (or alternately, > to market and sell XOs, depending on your perspective). Not knowing all the gossip, a lot of these seem more like "conservative" vs "exciting" decisions rather than "libre" vs "usability" or "global" vs "local". Programmer/Manager A: Let's do crazy idea X, it will solve A, B and C and will be simple to implement! Programmer/Manager B: You have no idea what what problems will really arise with X. Let's just stick with what works, Y. <fighting ensues> This judgment process is a natural part of software development. As a fun exercise, I personally come down at: Etoys, missed that one, Debian, something other than xo bundles, custom initscripts!!, KISS, libertas FTW, the best security is a reflash usb key and backup, both, probably livecd-tools, PATCHED, let them do whatever they need to, market away but avoid sponsors. Cheers, -Wade
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