On Wednesday, December 10, 2014 10:10:05 PM UTC+5:30, Marty wrote: > On 12/08/2014 09:12 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Monday 08 December 2014 13:18:18 Marty wrote: > >> I would even deign to > >> give users a choice in the matter, > > [snip] > >> Multi-seat PC and other > >> anachronisms probably have to go away. > > > > Choice??? > > > > Lisi > > The industry and its plans for FOSS is strongly anti-choice: > https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2008-January/msg00861.html > > I'm looking for a solution to that, not make it worse.
Have you heard of "Paradox of choice"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Paradox_of_Choice I guess that I dont disagree with your conclusion -- only the 'choice' logic. See below. > > This biggest issues I see at this point are non-technical, some > political, some based on ignorance of the history of the > computer industry and all of the fundamental technical issues > surrounding it. I consider debian-user to have a better than > average grasp of technical issues, but the confusion surrounding the > systemd debate shrouded the issues here too, as it did elsewhere. > > People who are happy with their computer environments and don't see > the issues and trends as problematic in any way, have my respect, even > envy at this moment. I feel the same way as I did when RMS announced GNU > and remember trying to decide how or if this will ever affect me, while > listening to the "lively" office debates it inspired. It saw it as > something that might even work. This time, I don't see a solution, a way > forward, and that worries me. It's like the GNU announcement in reverse. > > Protecting Debian modularity and the Debian ports is a big issue that > probably should not be left to package maintainers and the Technical > Committee. It's their job, in a sense, but recent events prove that > can't do it alone, and they (we users, Debian) are competing against > paid devs and industrial development. I wish I had the answer, and I > wish even there was consensus that this problem ever exists. Well in general the paradox of choice says that too much choice can be a bad thing. However in the case of systemd (or systemd in Debian-Jessie) the answer was clearly a small increase in choice -- go from a fixed init to a default but choose-able one -- a new choice in the installer. When one compares the extent of heat generated by these arguments to the tiny increase of nuisance to a user having to choose an init-system at install-time I am left incredulous... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/b2fc340b-155b-42d7-9e63-812e623e0...@googlegroups.com
