On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 09:57:30AM -0700, Thomas Lord wrote: > James> The company is moving completely away from arch. > > Yeah, and that's the irony. > > What it looks like from here is that Arch enabled Canonical > to bootstrap quickly and relatively efficiently. Mark even > cites `tla' as an inspiration for Canonical and it only takes > a small leap to conclude that my writings on how Arch can > improve the distribution business reached his ear directly > or indirectly (and also, apparently, imperfectly).
This sounds right to me. > In what is at least graceless and arguably unprofessional > ways y'all screwed both the users and the upstream project, > thoroughly. I think this is an issue of perception. Personally, I think the company has done a pretty good job overall, though I can understand why you think this. > thoroughly. Baz-ng, which looks to me to most likely wind > up as an "also ran", is a poor excuse. Launchpad's investment > to value-returned ratio, from all perspectives, doesn't look > very promising. To rescue a business model, Canonical's > technical and community ambitions are likely to contract and > you'll wind up being a support company for UserLinux-by-another- > name propped up by a modest number of contracts from people > uncomfortable buying from a USian company like Novell. > That's all well and good for paying a bit of rent and > mortgages but meanwhile: This is a testable hypothesis. :) I will be happy to personally bet you $1.00 in the currency of your choice that within five years the company is making money that is not primarily (< 50%) supporting end users. > You've overgrazed the commons, missed larger opportunities > due to a misguided interest in starting piss fights, and > your biggest impact is "nothing but driving a good man > from his home." I know of noobdy at the company that's interested in picking a fight with arch. I'm rooting for arch to do well in addition to Bazaar-NG and have been listing off the things that I think are necessary for that to happen. _______________________________________________ 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/
