M Harris wrote:
On Wednesday 18 April 2007 11:13, Russell Jones wrote:
There are far more important criteria for choosing a distribution than
how nicey-nicey people are.
This is very true ...
... and very wrong.
At this point in time the openSUSE distro is "better" for several technical
reasons than Ubuntu (I have objectively compared both and the
state-of-the-art definitely favors openSUSE at this point in time) however,
That's a moot point.
the Ubuntu "community" is bending over backwards to make "people" feel warm
and fuzzy all over to get them to consider switching over (yes to FOSS) from
M$ to Linux.
How is it doing this? Or is it just a perception? Is it sustainable?
That is, are users going to become disillusioned when these contortions
cease, as they must if they are such?
"People" feel good about Ubuntu... is it the best distro? NO.
Is it the number (1) ONE distro... Yes. (you do the math)
This is more to do with PR. Development of technical features are not
PR. Are technical lists for technical discussion, or for PR? Or both? If
so, how would that work? I think the latter creates inappropriate
expectations.
Fred's point is very helpful, if you can get past your arrogance long enough
to get your head (and heart) around it.
You mistake pragmatism for arrogance. FWIWTTD, I'm a Christian myself,
but open source is not based on unconditional charity. It's based on
perceived mutual benefit. Ignorant, lazy users with expectations of
automatic entitlement (a subset, of course) provide little or no benefit
that I can perceive, unless they pay their way. Ignorant, engaged users
who are willing to help out as much as they can are a different matter.
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