On 08/23/2009 09:25 PM, Thomas Janssen wrote: > I cant see anything wrong at pro choice and especially not at pro > freedom. Forcing users to pick a desktop environment is no more a favorable point than forcing users to pick a text editor. In either case, it is the distribution's job to pick a default. The mechanism is completely a orthogonal point. The fact is that they now have a default choice where they didn't have one for several releases. That is a important thing to take into consideration while arguing about abstracts like "choice" or "freedom". Fact is that, such abstracts don't make a good argument at all. > I cant completely agree with you here. I'm not saying that Fedora is > wrong with it, but the *how* is wrong If you want to grow your > userbase, you have to listen to your community. If you don't do it, > don't wonder if it's not growing (i do understand that you can't > listen for every single peep). Then, what does listening to the community mean, exactly? Community is not a single entity with a chorus view point. The free software community tends to be a very diverse group with very different and strong view points that contradict each other. I don't agree that fanboysim in a voting poll is equivalent to listening to the community. If popularity is the right choice, we should all be running Windows instead. Rahul _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
