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Where Fedora Went Wrong

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on · 6 comments
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Last month Eric S. Raymond made a public announcement on the Fedora developer’s list that he was giving up on Fedora Core and that from now on Ubuntu is his distribution of choice. Actually it was more of a rant than an announcement. ESR’s scatter shot attack on Fedora was wrong in more ways than I care to comment about here. Chromatic did a nice job of attacking the rant on several key points. He also pointed out quite correctly that ESR’s accomplishments as an Open Source activist didn’t make his changing distributions newsworthy.

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Comments (6)

hchaudh1 ·
My beef with this writeup is that it says that says that, "Actually it was more of a rant than an announcement", i.e. it was a rant on a mailing list. He did not publicize it. It is click hungry "journos" like this one who are stirring up a storm.

And the whole core of most of the replies on that list was to attack ESR about what he was doing wrong but nowhere did anyone acknowledge that out of all those complaints, maybe a couple might be rightful gripes.
tuxchick ·
Actually ESR did publicize this for all he was worth. He spammed every tech journalist he could find, which is standard procedure for him.

When someone has a hundred bogus complaints, and a couple of legitimate ones, do you really think the legitimate ones are going to get much attention?
dcparris ·
> He spammed every tech journalist he could find, which is standard procedure for him.

He missed one. ;-)
jimf ·
> He missed one. ;-)

TC feels slighted :(
pinakidion ·
Now the original story is gone, just comments.

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