Re: hey, remember the platform?

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On Friday 01 July 2005 01:29, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> To some extent I see this argument, but also when Aaron and others say
> this I find myself thinking "OK, so some people say stupid stuff; just
> tell them they are stupid and roll on" ;-)
>
> Basically I don't think we should base decisions on the opinions of
> random bystanders.

=46D.o is an attempt to bring some order to the land of babel that is the o=
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source desktop through mutual cooperation and intiatives, no? if so, then=20
popular acceptence, at least throughout the development community, is an=20
absolute minimum requirement.

as such, it's failing miserably at that. there is confusion as to the purpo=
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of FD.o, how this "platform" this works and what it is supposed to be made =
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of and the relationship between FD.o and $role (where $role is in the set o=
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{ user, ISV, 3rd party OSS developer, central project })

if people don't know what FD.o is for, how it works and what the heck is=20
supposed to be a part of it, FD.o well be for naught in the long term. i=20
don't see FD.o being useful as a closed circle "old boys club" style=20
organization, but i do see its agenda being distorted in the public eye by=
=20
those who have other ideas for it.

there's more to life than the core developers, and public perception most=20
certainly does shape and affect matters of adoption and support all the way=
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from 3rd party developers to final deployments.

and who really are we putting this platform together for? the people in KDE=
,=20
GNOME, OOo, Moz, etc.. all know what we use. this isn't nearly so much for =
us=20
as it is those we are trying to work with: vendors, ISVs and other third=20
parties.

so to shrug off FD.o's abismally poor public communications efforts as not=
=20
particularly important is short sighted. as you know (since i've publicly=20
stated it a few times now ;), i believe FD.o is currently on the tracks to=
=20
underachievement.

=2D-=20
Aaron J. Seigo
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