On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 10:58 AM, Stephen John Smoogen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 10:04 AM, Chris Preimesberger > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Walter, you have been a shining light of good information for all this > > time, and it's sad to see you pull away from the project. Sad to see > > the project melting away, too -- at least that's my impression. > > > > One standard thing I have seen is that every project goes through > these cycles. Developers/leaders leave a company, project or group > and the people who identified the project with those people post that > the project as "shriveling up and dying". I remember people saying > this of Debian, early Linux kernel development, Red Hat, SuSE, GNOME, > KDE, etc. Sometimes its true, but mostly its a gut reaction because > our brains are wired to identify with 'leaders' for our survival. If > our leaders leave the tribe.. we should go with them. Its a deep urge > we all have but it is rarely rooted in 'reality' but in the minds way > of coming up with 'reasons'. > > I am just commenting on this because its something I have seen over > and over again with companies, projects, and groups.. and it > interested me why one day I was all happy to be working for a company > and 2 days later was ready to leave because it was going to crap when > a developer I worked under left. > > The big thing I learned was that companies, projects, groups, etc > change constantly, and people who thrive under some conditions > deteriorate under others.. and have to leave. And when that happens, > there are a lot of psychological shifts in the group where other > people stay and leave because various 'leaders' stayed or left.. in > some cases you end up with large scisms where people will no longer > talk with each other, and in other cases you have people agreeing to > disagree on where each group is going. >
On the other hand, comments from the AP article can make me eat crow :) http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hXa0O9XLMsWfaqt-sI9FqFy2IewgD9074MH82 For about a year, however, Microsoft has been working to get a slimmed-down version of Windows to run on XO laptops. As a result, Negroponte said Tuesday that he expects XOs to soon have a "dual-boot" option, meaning users would be able to run Windows or Sugar. One current hang-up is whether the necessary hardware would add $7 to $12 to an XO's cost, taking the project even further away from its eventual goal of producing the machines for less than $100. Eventually, Negroponte added, Windows might be the sole operating system, and Sugar would be educational software running on top of it. -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- CSIRT/Linux System Administrator How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice" _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel