On 12/4/2013 1:25 PM, Beartooth wrote: > > Recent exchanges here and in related places have reminded me > strongly of long discussions held on RedHat lists fifteen or twenty years > ago. > > Was (now is) RH/F, and Linux generally, *for* all & sundry? Or > was/is it essentially a plaything of the Alpha Plus Technoids? Which > *should* it be? > > That distinction applied to shoes and ships and sealing wax, to > cabbages and kings; i.e., all the way from designing new apps for GUI, > for CLI only, or for some compromise -- to what sorts of posters and > questions ought to be welcome or unwelcome on the public lists. > > I remember pointing out repeatedly that when the Baby Boomers > began to retire, and cease to be bound to their employers' systems, some > fraction of them would take up Linux -- and it wouldn't need a very big > fraction of their numbers to make a substantial difference to Linux. > > To the best of my recollection, that issue never resolved into > any consensus. RedHat changed its whole strategy, and suddenly many of us > had far more urgent concerns than just the philosophic ones. > > By this time, at an informed guess, the Boomers must be retiring > in spates and floods. My subjective impression is that I see more fellow > retirees than before, but I can't guess numbers. Does anyone here have > such numbers, or know of a source from whence to get them? > "The New LinuxCounter Project" <http://linuxcounter.net/main.html> -- David -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
