On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 2:54 PM, Eric Shubert <
ejs@shubes.net> wrote:
> Joshua Zeidner wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Ryan Rix <phrkonaleash@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> And still, NO ONE CARED.
>>>>
>>>> ?
>>>>
>>>> -jmz
>>>
>>> i don't understand why it is important what desktop manager some kernel
>>> developer uses (I'm understating, atm, i know). I use what I like and what
>>> some other person uses doesn't matter to me and i don't understand why it
>>> should to anyone else.
>>
>> hey Ryan,
>>
>> ah, well a reasoned statement deserves a reasoned response...
>>
>> Linus is an important authority in the Linux world. Its possible
>> that his decision is not well informed- but from my perspective, its
>> obvious he does know a lot about Linux and uses it regularly. Out
>> here in the 'real world' lots of parties want to influence my choices
>> for a variety of reasons, and I know that Linus is not likely to have
>> some kind of ulterior commercial (or other) interest. And that goes a
>> long way.
>>
>> Remember, there are lots of other parameters for adoption aside from
>> personal usability preference. But as it goes in the Linux world, the
>> choice is yours! best, jmz
>
> A mentor of mine used to say "Who's right is not important. What's right
> is." Along the same lines, I don't care so much what Linus uses, but I'd
> be interested to know *why* he uses what he does. My needs and values
> might be similar, and they might not be.
>
The principled approach is good, but I personally want the best
insurance against the project dying off or future incompatibilities.
From this perspective, the number of users is the best metric. For
instance, PHP was not even close to being the best architecture for
middleware, but it reached a lot of people for a variety of reasons.
Now those people went ahead and improved PHP where it does measure up
to the competition... jmz
-jmz
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