* On 2013 08 Apr 03:24 -0500, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Please, continue at d-community-offto...@lists.alioth.debian.org only!
Why? This list does not have an iron fisted moderator. Some of the assertions in the picture are true, at least as to the behavior of software and personalities, and this affects me as a Debian user and is NOT off-topic, IMO. So, I'm staying right here. > Why should Microsoft hire people to make Linux more like Windows? >From one perspective, guiding all GUIs to be one like the other means that people have no real reason to switch. Easier to keep the sheep in the pen if there is no greener pasture visible. Also, continual churn and frustration allows MS to market the "stability" of their platform. I've been around this community long enough to know that the past five or six years have seen a remarkable amount of change in the major desktop projects. Some of it is good and helpful and others seem little more than needless disruption coming from *somewhere*. Considering the resources MS poured into discrediting ODF and then poisoning the "standards" process at ISO to fast track their crippled XML document version shows that they are not above any means necessary to protect their hegemony. It has worked as companies have remained with MS Office. > I don't do research about this topic myself, it seems t be a conspiracy > theory and not worth the hassle. This is the chance for you Dirk, to > undergird your hard claim. Perhaps a study of the Halloween Documents from 1998 and onward is in order: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_Documents I too would like more hard evidence regarding where the disruptive influences have been coming from. > Btw. IMO this belongs to > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic > if we should continue without witch-hunting. IMO discussion belongs right here for reasons I stated above. Besides, your insistence to quickly kill this discussion by moving it to an obscure list echoes some of the attitudes alluded to in the first link posted by Dirk. > Including the witch-hunting it belongs to /dev/null. What witch hunting? I too am frustrated by the directions some major projects have taken in recent years and have moved to projects that haven't yet taken such a track toward a "screw you" attitude. I want to know who these people are and their motivations. While I would immediately distrust anyone who uses the term "product vision" out loud, I respect Linus because he clearly knows what belongs in the kernel and what doesn't and is not afraid to say so without need of buzz words.. > Please, continue at d-community-offto...@lists.alioth.debian.org only! No! - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Ham radio, Linux, bikes, and more: http://www.n0nb.us -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130408104459.gm5...@n0nb.us
