Am 10.01.2014 13:10, schrieb Igor: > Hello Chris, > > Friday, January 10, 2014, 1:08:39 AM, you wrote: > >> Right here is the big problem: you're not looking at this from the >> perspective of the average Gentoo developer. We don't care about market >> share. We don't care whether we're on top for another few years. There >> are several forks of Gentoo. I doubt most devs care about them. I >> personally know that we're not going to compete with Debian, which has a >> huge contributor, or Ubuntu or Red Hat, which have whole companies >> behind them. You're selling this as if you're selling to a company which >> wants to be on the top of the market and beating out competitors, and >> that's not what we are. We are a source-based distro that requires some >> effort from users, and people want that or they don't want it. >>> What we need is a vote YES or NO. If you against it - vote NO. It's >>> perfectly normal, if there would be no NO there would be no need voting. > > Thank you for you opinion. > > The competition in open source world is much harder than with > commercial software. 3 commercial systems share 96% of the users. > > 1,6% of the users are shared by 296 Linux distros > > You may think that you're outside this rules but the competition is natural > on the planet and Gentoo is certainly competing weather you want it or not. > > Competition was long before a human foot stood on the ground for the first > time :-) And suddenly there is no competition in Linux world - do you really > belive in it?
There is no really competition for the non-enterprise systems. It is a co-existance (one might even call it some kind of symbiosis). Please take your business nonsense somewhere else. Honestly, you sound like some suit with his powerpoint slides talking about buzz-words like 'competitors', 'keeping in power', 'QoS' … There were also numerous threads already about the very same topic. Most came to the conclusions that a) Gentoo is not dying b) the numbers used as arguments are inaccurate at best (how do you count 'Gentoo users'? And do you want users or machines? And what with persons using different systems) - René
