On Monday 11 October 2010 23:44:01 Farkas Levente wrote: > but our opinion simple do not count. better is what most user like. period.
We all know that's not true. In an ideal world the best things would also be those with the most success. Sadly, in reality this doesn't apply. Just look what the most popular newspapers are. Do you really want to tell me these are the ones offering the highest quality journalism available? At least where I live, the most popular newspapers are also those most full of crap. In the best case they just write trivial nonsense, whereas most of the time they use their popularity to push their own agenda. Nevertheless they sell most of the copies, whereas many papers used to be known for their high quality are struggling for their existence. No, in reality there is not always a correlation between popularity and quality. Obviously, this doesn't mean that popularity is bad. But when the price we have to pay for being popular is heavy (i.e. doing something that makes Fedora inferior from a technical point of view) this should be well considered. Speaking frankly, I want to help making an operating system that is excellent in technical terms. Popularity is certainly nice to have, but when it requires actions that are contrary to technical excellence it clearly comes second. I don't want to do anything against better judgement. As long as Fedora doesn't depend on selling as much copies as possible I think that's an reasonable approach. But that's just my humble opinion. Everybody is free to have their own. Lars. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
