Fedora opens up to bundling

Posted Oct 14, 2015 18:44 UTC (Wed) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)
In reply to: Fedora opens up to bundling by xtifr
Parent article: Fedora opens up to bundling

> Then how come we've been able to get along so well for the last couple of decades without?
By being about 1% of the market (I'm speaking about "classic" desktop Linux).

Fedora opens up to bundling

Posted Oct 15, 2015 7:41 UTC (Thu) by nim-nim (subscriber, #34454) [Link] (2 responses)

And 99% of the market is junk and won't stand the test of time.

There is a high correlation between "having a sane run environment" (without bundling) and "being still there 5 years later".

Bundling-rich projects are shiny but tend to break under the technical debt they tried to hide in the bundled goo after a while. Their authors display full-rewrite tendencies aka I-care-about-something-else-now about the time the goo obsolescence becomes critical enough they can't ignore it anymore.

Fedora opens up to bundling

Posted Oct 15, 2015 7:59 UTC (Thu) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link] (1 responses)

> And 99% of the market is junk and won't stand the test of time.
Yup. But in the meantime it pays the bills and runs the world.

Fedora opens up to bundling

Posted Oct 15, 2015 19:13 UTC (Thu) by nim-nim (subscriber, #34454) [Link]

In the proprietary world, you're right, selling dead-end condemned software is ok, as long as you can rack enough money to replace it when the time comes.

But in the FLOSS world, the bills is good reusable code since money is not reinjected in the system.