On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 07:21 -0600, Josh Boyer wrote: > On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 12:33 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > > > > Well, firstly. this is my personal experience, secondly one thing is a > > fact: The majority of OpenSource developers has a university/educational > > institution background. > > Ok, my personal experience differs. Well, it might be a national difference ;) In Germany, Linux is of very limited importance outside of universities, and even if, then the Linux market is dominated by the other major distro. THL works for a magazine which occasionally publishes figures and conducts "user polls". May-be he has recent numbers. > > > Seriously, what benefit would it have? > > The same as FE has over 3rd party repositories: > > > > Same server infrastructure, build system infrastructure, better package > > coordination/less package conflicts (c.f. Axel's complaint on zaptel and > > friends), same packaging standards, ... > > The only thing I really see as a benefit is perhaps the same server > infrastructure. Plague is open source, so a 3rd party repo can use that > just fine (I'm part of a local project that does). The packaging > standards can be adopted by anyone. Coordination/conflicts... only > because it would the become required for maintainers of FE which places > more steps on them. I do not agree on this. The buildsystem and the distribution infrastructure makes a real difference for "Joe average contributor". Also the "centralized repo under a common hood" makes a real difference to end-users. > > The downside would be: Probably endless quarrels on "legality", more > > bureaucracy and ... "less freedom" :( > > Well, to paraphrase a conversation I had with a few people yesterday, > you have to draw the line somewhere. The "no use restrictions" is a > reasonable one. Well, probably no surprize to you, to me this is not sufficient. Ralf -- Fedora-maintainers mailing list Fedora-maintainers@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers -- Fedora-maintainers-readonly mailing list Fedora-maintainers-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers-readonly
