2) The market share argument is utterly irrelevant and idiotic. Yes, Linux has very little market share and yes, Fedora is an even smaller part of that, but if you think it through to the end, his argument ends in "let's give up doing a distro", because apparently it isn't worth it anyway.
If you are of the opinion that branding doesn't matter, than a distro is just a curated selection of 100% upstream packages. At this point, Arch is a much better distro than Fedora, IMO, because it has an even more upstream desktop. But a good distro is more than that and it seems to me Zonker should agree with that, considering how much he was constantly perpetuating OpenSuse's branding and marketing when he was still working for them.
Fab
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 5:12 AM, Rahul Sundaram <metherid@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi
http://dissociatedpress.net/2011/04/18/fedora-and-gnome-branding-drama-missing-the-big-picture/
"I’m not saying this to belittle Fedora — but to put this whole thing
into perspective. Arguing over branding here is /just plain silly/.
Depending on which side you’re on, it may validate your “team” (GNOME
vs. Fedora, I guess) but it’s /utterly irrelevant/ when it comes to
having an impact on Fedora adoption. At best it’s a distraction from
actually increasing the market share of Linux — and at worst it’s a
validation of the argument that community driven projects fail due to
infighting."
Rahul
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