On Wed, 08 Oct 2014 08:34:10 -0400 Phil Turmel <phi...@turmel.org> wrote:
> > You may think its absolutely realistic, but the market doesn't agree > with you. Red Hat, SUSE, Canonical, et al call their products > *distributions*, not *operating systems* because their customers don't > want to create their own solutions. They want a collection of software > pieces--kernel, libraries, applications--that solve their (end-user) > problems. > Market??? This whole spiel sounds like the snooty squawking of some MBA automaton. FOSS is neither market-oriented nor market-driven. In fact, I would hope that all FOSS developers, secretly or otherwise, give the middle-finger salute to all market advocates. FOSS is motivated by a computer science idealism, i.e. what is technically good and proper rules the day and let the market be damned. Are we to start judging merit by counting the number of users? Most POS software packages (and I don't mean "point of sale") tend to be quite popular because they cater to total idiots, and such useless statistics would only appeal to a deluded and delirious marketdroid. Red Hat, SUSE, Canonical, et. al. should fork off their corporate concerns and leave the FOSS community entirely. Under their direction, we'll soon be having "new and improved" Linux releases every Black Friday to snag all the impulse buyers within the demented Xmas crowd.
