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| From | Ximin Luo <infinity0@debian.org> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.debian.project |
| Subject | Re: farewell |
| Date | 2019-07-23 05:20 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <ymTvj-7Mn-1@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
| References | <ymRWx-6DE-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <ymTbX-7qj-3@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| Organization | linux.* mail to news gateway |
Mo Zhou: >> [..] >> >> Oh, Gnome. > > It's a pity that the "software stores" started to think they know > "what the user want" [..] Just use XFCE. I ditched GNOME years ago and am much happier for it. The GNOME design philosophy is clearly chasing after Apple and other mass-market strategies. Let me throw a spanner in the works: >>> For a volunteer-based FOSS project like Debian, <<< >>> mass-market users are a **liability** not an asset. <<< I'm sure lots of people will misinterpret what I mean here, but it's really just simple economics. The life of a project like Debian lives off of incoming contributions, not incoming support requests. And certainly it is possible to convert mass-market users into productive contributors, but everyone starts off being a (concrete, short-term) liability to the project. X -- GPG: ed25519/56034877E1F87C35 GPG: rsa4096/1318EFAC5FBBDBCE https://github.com/infinity0/pubkeys.git
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Re: farewell Martin Steigerwald <martin@lichtvoll.de> - 2019-07-23 10:50 +0200
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