Moving the goalposts [LWN.net]

Moving the goalposts

Posted Mar 6, 2013 20:22 UTC (Wed) by mmarq (guest, #2332)
In reply to: Moving the goalposts by misc
Parent article: Canonical reveals plans to launch Mir display server (The H)

>Not to mention that if 90% of your workforce leave, **there is a high chance that all of them will not work for free for the project anymore** ( see Stormy Peters talk about it, something around "would you do it again for free" ). There is also a high probability that you have to remove people who act as bridges with community, thus making the community angry ( again, look at Mandriva and the way people reacted when Adam Williamson or Gael Duval were asked to leave ).

>**there is a high chance that all of them will not work for free for the project anymore**

Oh! there is a good chance they will... and they could even end up paying for it to! lol... specially if they could derive a business out of it.

Maybe that is what makes me arrogant, but i never understood the lack of vision -> What is it that most ppl more connected to the F/OSS side really want ?

ummm... they want their own distro... no ?

So instead of a Mandriva 20388 or a Ubuntu Jolly Something... Why not a Mandriva or a Ubuntu "Stormy Peters" as example ?

see ?

In the same sense, since we are talking about "client side", but also perfectly appliable to any server version... why not a Ubuntu or Mandriva "MacDonal's" or "Ford" or "Boeing"... or more up to point a Mandriva or Ubuntu "local smaller company", with all the "local" customization, LOffice with the pertinent forms, the pertinent apps in place some that can be even CS commercial Linux versions.. etc ..etc ?

see the point ?

That seems a real good "re-invention" of the model... it is "service oriented" model, the main distro is only a big repository, app store kind of thing, and it can even adapt to the "masses" being all online compile-install with several degrees of customization...

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