On 02/19/2013 07:01 AM, Gordan Bobic wrote:
And now you touch upon another important issue. This is more of a distro maintenance issue. It is also probably why Ubuntu maintainers pay more attention to such things - because their users are their _customers_. Without those, there's no revenue.
Well, there's something I can agree with. Ubuntu sells services much like Red Hat, and tries to do deals with hardware OEM's. So, they have paying customers. *That's* the kind of constraining influence on developers that does not exist in the free-as-in-beer world of Fedora and most everywhere else in FOSS.
Being dependent on customer revenue encumbers developers with the need to keep those customers happy. It limits their freedom. You wouldn't kill Gnome 2 if your income relied on its existence.
Fedora doesn't really need to worry about having happy users as long as it has enough users to shake out its software. Red Hat, though, is a business, with stockholders. They have considerably less freedom to do as they please.
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