[Mageia-discuss] Mageia logo proposals and selection

Tux99 tux99-mga at uridium.org
Wed Oct 20 14:46:32 CEST 2010


On Wed, 20 Oct 2010, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:

> 2010/10/20 Michael Scherer <misc at zarb.org>:
> >
> > "Jeroen: One of the big, essential differences between Fedora and other
> > distributions is that we’d rather gain one contributor than a dozen
> > users. In fact, if I could lose 1000 users right now and gain a
> > contributor, I’d do it. It’s not up to me, but if it were, I’d do it."
> 
> This seems to me a very short-sighted point of view. It may be right
> if you start a project and you do not have enough contributors to get
> it going at all.

The reason why Fedora isn't much interested in mere users is because 
Fedora is not a real community distro at all.

Fedora is first and foremost a testbest of new technologies for Redhat, 
to experiment with new code that might then later be incorporated into 
RHEL.

Redhat doesn't care much about the end-users of Fedora, they only care 
about attracting skilled developers, since those represent extra unpaid 
labour for them, that ultimately benefits their commercial RHEL distro.

Despite that (and despite what most people think), most of the work on 
Fedora is still done by Redhat employees.
Without Redhat Fedora would cease to exist (at least in it's current 
form).

I know this might sound harsh to some who didn't know this, but that's 
the reality of it.

If Mageia takes off (and I'm sure it will) it will actually become the 
ONLY other large community distro besides Debian and we might even 
attract quite a few Fedora devs that want to switch to a REAL rpm based
community distro.



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