On dimanche 17 octobre 2010 at 03:11, LinuxBSDos.com wrote : > It's this idea of "community" that has been the bane of virtually all > Linux distributions. It's part of the reason that we have failed to > conquer the desktop. If Android were a "community" mobile distribution, > it would not be in the position that it currently occupies. > > Instead of focusing on the needs of the community, why not start thinking > of building a distribution for main stream users. Think about how > successful companies design their products. Think about what has made > Apple so successful. It's vision and foresight. It's knowing what people > need and building it, before they even realize that they need it. > > The whole idea of listening to thousands of opinions on how a > distribution should be designed stymies real progress, especially when > most of those opinions are not based on a real understanding of the > subject matter. > > You get a group of people who have a certain degree of expertize in their > field, and get them to design and build a product. In this particular > case it should be very easy. Just look around. There are hundreds of > distributions that we can co-opt features from and then make them better.
Contrary to android and macos (and mandriva) which are backed by enterprises, mageia is a community project. So if you throw away the community, there is nothing left. -- Renaud Michel
