Op maandag 28 november 2011 14:40:34 schreef Michael Scherer: [...] > There is several pragmatic reasons for that and, there is also some long > term harm by shipping more and more proprietary software like : [...] > Personally, I aim for better stuff than fragile unsustainable hacks like > this. And we should not start to settle on lower standards, especially > if forced to us by non cooperative company or group. One could be > tolerable. Two, likely. More, that's starting to generalize, and that's > just sending the wrong signal to the whole community, and saying to > company "it is ok to treat us like parias". It is hard to be credible > when saying "we want to provides a solid system" and in the same time, > do the contrary. > > I doubt we will be able to bring real long term credibility and a > reputation for quality if we go this way. People can just compare Ubuntu > reputation to Debian one, and see which one was able to survive without > spending million of dollars each year. And also which one serve as a > base for the other.
You touch some interesting points here, and I appreciate you here explaining your personal opinion, I'm beginning to see more clearly your reasoning in the past, and my own reasoning. I believe i may have to review my own pov here... +1