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| helios May 20, 2011 10:06 AM EDT |
My hope is that the Linux community will never fixate on any issue or topic at the expense of the final judge and jury of Linux's value in the world: the end users. While "The Linux Community" is too fragmented to make such an action possible, large factions are not. Oh, I don't know...KDE, Gnome...The Linux Flagship Canonical? All have done exactly the same thing to a point. The players and motives have been different but the results have pretty much been the same. At least with Linux, we can board the Good Ship Mint or XFCE...we need not stay sailed on a slowly sinking boat. The Captains of such sweeping change probably believe history will show them doing the right thing. I believe the lifeboats are being manned as we speak. |
| raislinux2 May 20, 2011 5:24 PM EDT |
Helios, I hope not. I hope that as we see the errors of others, we can learn from them and make adjustments. I would concur that the greatest advantage is that the community is so diverse and fragmentation allows for things like Mint or XFCE to exist. The monolith will die not because it couldn't listen to end-users, but BECAUSE it could not adjust. But it is people like yourself who can help convey the need for this among all of the community at large! |
| Koriel May 20, 2011 6:50 PM EDT |
Have already boarded the good ship Linux Mint XFCE (Debian Edition) and am currently sailing off into the sunset whilst the Ubuntu flagship appears to be listing heavily due to being torpedoed below the waterline by Canonical U96. One could say Ubuntu has been given Das Boot. |
| raislinux2 May 20, 2011 8:48 PM EDT |
Koriel, indeed! |
| gus3 May 21, 2011 2:44 PM EDT |
@Koriel, -1 for the bad pun. |
| Koriel May 21, 2011 7:47 PM EDT |
Aww and I have been trying to work my fav movie into a pun for years :) |
| tuxchick May 21, 2011 7:53 PM EDT |
I will never admit I laughed. |
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