Hi, Andreas: On Thursday 22 July 2010 10:38:03 Andreas Tille wrote: > On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 10:28:36AM +0200, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: > > IMHO we should care about improving Debian, going toward the perfection, > > not about increasing the number of users (which should > > be a nice secondary effect). > > So you have even found the answer to the question - or rather you > pronounced it differently, because whe need to ask: "What exactly is > perfection?" In my eyes perfection means: "So good that people will > prefer it over others."
Unless you are ominscient, trying to find out what others will happen to be choosing is quite a difficult game. Why not go after a not so "self-imporant" but more feasible goal? I prefer something on the lines of "so good that *I* will prefer it over others". > > So, let see how to improve Debian, not how to increase > > our userbase! > > I do not think that we succeed in improving Debian if the userbase is > decreasing. IMHO this would mean we are trapped in an ivory tower. Don't fool yourself: given that the whole linux-at-desktop marketshare is around 2%, we *already* are "trapped" in an ivory tower and Microsoft is the one achieving perfection since that's what "people prefer over others". Now, I choose to use Linux instead of Windows for a reason, and within Linux I choose Debian for a reason, do I? Cheers. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201007221120.26990.jesus.nava...@undominio.net
