Clyde E. Kunkel <clydekunkel7734 <at> cox.net> writes: > ... > All this said, I am beginning to believe Fedora is more and more an > experiment in social engineering. > ... That's a well-chosen remark :-) "Social engineering is the art of manipulating people into performing actions...". I think it also applies to open source domain activities. I have had an impression over the years that users, but also ad hoc developers, are used very instrumentally ("guinea pigs" ?) as users, testers, and devs, in the process of furthering goals of open source projects or companies. I see a dichotomy between e.g. open source companies' interests and those of larger community, be it other open source organizations or even a mass of individuals. I am also surprised (have been for long time) by seeing Linux projects violating UNIX principles of software development. In this particular context, I am disappointed that they, apparently, lack oversight by management, starting with the design phase. Thanks god there are still those old timers all over the places, who are vigilant and capable of spotting brewing trouble, unfortunately almost after the fact. JB -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines