On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 2:12 PM, Brian Wheeler <bdwheele@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 15:05 -0500, Matthew Woehlke wrote: >> Brian Wheeler wrote: >> > Well, I'm a long time user and I don't see what the big deal is. There >> > are several people on this list which seem to announce that "<insert >> > change here> is the one that's going to drive long time users away" >> > and/or "time to look for a new distribution" semi-regularly... yet they >> > (long time users) are still here. >> >> Maybe they just haven't found anything better (yet)? > > > Which is fair. Everyone should be able to switch whenever they choose. > > But if someone gets pissed off about this trivial change (or something > similar) and they switch to "Super Awesome Linux 2000" ... would they > switch again when it makes the same change as Fedora? No they probably not change.. because their cultural norms would have become reset to new things. They might grouse, but the impetus of major change isnt there. Now after 2 years some change in that environment might make them change again but it will be something completely different. And 'minor' changes are rarely minor in the minds the effected people. If you came in every 6 months and found that something in your workplace was completely different.. your brain would get grouchy.. it doesn't matter if your company is called Kaos, LLC and its job is to change all the time. 6 months ago, all the phones went from 2 digit extensions to 8 digit ones and you didn't find out any of the changes because its in your voicemail you can't dial. Your office is now on the 3rd floor, but no one told you. The office walls seem to change colors every couple of weeks as two different directors call in different painters to get the look just right. And the building manager and your boss keep saying these are minor things and why aren't you seeing how much better it is for everyone... and if you had been in the 8 different planning committees you would have known all these changes (not that you could have changed them.. just known about them.) -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- BSD/GNU/Linux How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice" -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
