On Thu, 20 Dec 2007, Mukul Dharwadkar wrote:
It's really going to be very hard if we still continue to measure our
success on popularity in Developer community. Although it is a good
thing to be accepted by Developers, the true measure of success is the
acceptance by the user community in which, I am sorry to say, Ubuntu
beats Fedora hands down.
"True measure of success"?
The most persistent fallacy in the open source world is that desktop usage
by grandma and grandpa is the "true measure of success". If the "true
measure of success" is number of novice desktop users, then Microsoft is
beating all of us by such a wide margin that we may as well not bother.
Ubuntu is extremely good at polishing what currently exists for new Linux
users. That's a good goal. But it is not Fedora's primary goal.
Fedora's goal is to put together the best *and most free* general purpose
operating system with *the strongest community of contributors* in order
to *drive innovation*.
We have to come up with ways to make sure that Linux in general and
specifically Fedora becomes the OS of choice. It's a large market out
there and we can make it if we get our priorities right.
I agree that we must keep working to make Fedora more useful to more
people. Note that the differences in that regard between Ubuntu and
Fedora shrink with every release.
We must not, however, compromise the Free Software principles that give us
our strength.
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