[Mageia-discuss] Mageia logo proposals and selection

Sun Oct 17 03:11:08 CEST 2010

+>> I agree with most everything said
+> Not quite evident to understand in this quite controversial discussion!
+>
+> I cant keep my tong away from my cheek - sorry. The real point for my
+> reply is: I am getting more and more confused with the ultimate goal
+> pursued by Mageia:
+>
+> - (1) Does Mageia define its profile and then develops sales arguments
+> for how to sell the distro?
+> or
+> - (2) Does Mageia make a list of sales arguments and then designs the
+> distro that goes with these arguments?
+>
+> Probably it is a mix of both - but there should be a clear priority. I
+> had understood Mageia to be a community distro, i.e. no question, (1):
+> shape the distro according to the needs of the community - and then (OK,
+> plan beforehand) see how to hook more "customers". I believe in the
+> solidity of the community behind Mageia and its opinions - what this
+> community judges right has a large probability of being "right" - why
+> forget this achievement and base judgement on opportunity (afraid, my
+> tong again ...)
+>
+
+It's this idea of "community" that has been the bane of virtually all
+Linux distributions. It's part of the reason that we have failed to
+conquer the desktop. If Android were a "community" mobile distribution, it
+would not be in the position that it currently occupies.
+
+Instead of focusing on the needs of the community, why not start thinking
+of building a distribution for main stream users. Think about how
+successful companies design their products. Think about what has made
+Apple so successful. It's vision and foresight. It's knowing what people
+need and building it, before they even realize that they need it.
+
+The whole idea of listening to thousands of opinions on how a distribution
+should be designed stymies real progress, especially when most of those
+opinions are not based on a real understanding of the subject matter.
+
+You get a group of people who have a certain degree of expertize in their
+field, and get them to design and build a product. In this particular case
+it should be very easy. Just look around. There are hundreds of
+distributions that we can co-opt features from and then make them better.
+
+We do not need a thousand opinions to do that.
+
+--
+Fini Decima
+
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