On Thu, 2009-06-04 at 08:54 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > Conrad Meyer wrote: > > On Wednesday 03 June 2009 11:40:42 pm Ralf Corsepius wrote: > >> Conrad Meyer wrote: > >>> On Wednesday 03 June 2009 10:23:05 pm Ralf Corsepius wrote: > >>>> Let me try an analogy: How do you handle defects/malfunctions with your > >>>> car? > >>> Did a bunch of hobbyists from around the world build your car by > >>> communicating over the internet? > >> Have you ever seen an open source car? > >> > >> The Fedora "car" manufacturer is the "fedora community", assembling it > >> from "upstream" components. > >> > >> Ralf > > > > That's the idea, opensource behaves completely different from a car > > manufacturer. > Wrong. It doesn't. I don't think we have the power to (nor would we want to) force upstream to do certain things in a certain way, for ridiculously low prices and "no we won't pay you on delivery" but 3 months later. The relationship between us and upstream is significantly different from a car manufacturer and its suppliers. Nils -- Nils Philippsen "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase Red Hat a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nils@xxxxxxxxxx nor Safety." -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759 PGP fingerprint: C4A8 9474 5C4C ADE3 2B8F 656D 47D8 9B65 6951 3011 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
