On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 01:27:50PM -0400, Máirín Duffy wrote: > I agree. I think that more experienced users and developers are a > little frightened of a Fedora Simple - there's certainly a risk of > making it annoying for them, but I don't think that will necessarily > be the case. I think if we do things right, in the end a Fedora > Simple would be something good for advanced techies to use as well. > > E.g., I don't think OS X's primary target is developers, but I think > there are plenty of highly-technical developers and other folks who > enjoy using OS X. > > >I think the thing that leaves me unsettled is that all of this > >seems to stem from the fact that some new users are not having a > >great experience with Fedora, and rather than analyze that problem > >and work on usability improvements, we are choosing to let those > >users go somewhere else, whether that is Mac OSX or Ubuntu or > >Windows. I think that such a decision is terribly short-sighted, > >and will result in a long-term loss of contributors, community, and > >possibly the eventual irrelevance of Fedora. > > Absolutely agreed. I do too, and I also believe that Mo's point above is an excellent summary of how I would respond to people who talk about dumbing down Linux or Fedora. I have been to a *lot* of open source conferences in the past two years, enough that I'm no longer surprised to see that many people there are using Mac OS X. -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
