On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 2:54 PM, Eric Shubert <[email protected]> wrote: > Joshua Zeidner wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Ryan Rix <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> And still, NO ONE CARED. >>>> >>>> ? >>>> >>>> -jmz >>> >>> i don't understand why it is important what desktop manager some kernel >>> developer uses (I'm understating, atm, i know). I use what I like and what >>> some other person uses doesn't matter to me and i don't understand why it >>> should to anyone else. >> >> hey Ryan, >> >> ah, well a reasoned statement deserves a reasoned response... >> >> Linus is an important authority in the Linux world. Its possible >> that his decision is not well informed- but from my perspective, its >> obvious he does know a lot about Linux and uses it regularly. Out >> here in the 'real world' lots of parties want to influence my choices >> for a variety of reasons, and I know that Linus is not likely to have >> some kind of ulterior commercial (or other) interest. And that goes a >> long way. >> >> Remember, there are lots of other parameters for adoption aside from >> personal usability preference. But as it goes in the Linux world, the >> choice is yours! best, jmz > > A mentor of mine used to say "Who's right is not important. What's right > is." Along the same lines, I don't care so much what Linus uses, but I'd > be interested to know *why* he uses what he does. My needs and values > might be similar, and they might not be. >
The principled approach is good, but I personally want the best insurance against the project dying off or future incompatibilities. >From this perspective, the number of users is the best metric. For instance, PHP was not even close to being the best architecture for middleware, but it reached a lot of people for a variety of reasons. Now those people went ahead and improved PHP where it does measure up to the competition... jmz -jmz > -- > -Eric 'shubes' > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
