On 9/7/05, Thomas Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 5On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 22:52 +0100, Robin Green wrote: > > > The general point: at _least_ two distro vendor startups - Canonical and > > rpath - appear to be interested in supporting Gnu/linux users in the spirit > > of Free Software, i.e. supporting and encouraging custom modifications. ... > >From an engineering perspective, I question why we need platform > distribution companies *at that scale* *at all*. It seems to me like
Certain changes take time. The current evolution is towards smaller companies and closely related distributions, many of them based on Debian. Canonical is significantly smaller than RedHat, while RedHat is much smaller than the platform distributors of yore (IBM, Microsoft, etc). > A federation of much smaller distro companies could do the same job much > more securely and while encouraging far higher quality results. This _is_ happening around Debuan currently -- Canonical is just the most visible player. > Yes, they are. Hopefully if I reiterate why often enough it'll sink in. > I've got a few days.... :-) Certain processes take time -- and as an individual it is risky to put yourself in the hands of what is a shifting marketplace. As risky things go, if you get the timing right you are golden, if you get it wrong you are in trouble. Regardless of personal effort and achievements, unfortunately. > Talk to me in 5 years, assuming I'm still here, which is currently > rather unlikely. I trust that in 5 years we'll still see you in the FOSS space, well funded, and working on fun projects. To get there, however, you'll be better served by moving on even if you are right about some things. Few people will employ with someone (as contractor or permanent) who makes an opening statement of how they've been wronged by the previous employer. It's one of those things you don't do on a first date either ;-) I am very thankful of your work on arch/tla, and I think it was a huge contribution as a tool and as an exploration of the SCM space. And I am very hopeful that you'll leave it behind, with all the good and bad things it had for you, and find a new job, with new challenges that you find engaging and help you put all this behind. cheers, martin _______________________________________________ Gnu-arch-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-arch-users GNU arch home page: http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gnu-arch/
