Future and impact of ongoing projects in Linux world

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Ralf Mardorf schreef op 05-10-2016 15:56:
>> On 05 Oct 2016, at 14:59, Himanshu Shekhar wrote:
>> Standardized things, at least for a distro.
> 
> Each distro has got it's policy, a distro specific standard. We could
> chose the distro that fits best to our needs.

I didn't want to respond to this idea, but.

People have more choice than just choose which of the bad guys they 
want.

It's a deficiency if you claim nothing could ever be changed or that you 
can't work with a distro to change some things or that you can't invite 
people to like what you are doing -- you can have a developer mindset 
all you want, and there is no reason to say that you can only remain an 
island and that you have to make your changes only for yourself.

This fatalistic and nihilistic approach to change is just utterly 
self-defeating and ugly to me.

> The FLOSS approach is to share things and to find common
> standards, so it could take longer to find something all people
> involved agree.

My country is lauded for this. They call it the Poldermodel.

But if nothing else the Netherlands is quite an ineffective country. The 
politicians are completely impotent.

"The term polder model and especially the verb polderen (to polder) has 
been used pejoratively by some politicians to describe the slow 
decision-making process where all parties have to be heard. The model 
flourished under the "Purple" governments of Dutch prime minister Wim 
Kok, a coalition including the traditional rivals the Labour Party (a 
social-democratic party, whose colour is red) and the People's Party for 
Freedom and Democracy (right-wing liberals, whose colour is blue). In 
the declining economic climate of the early 21st century the model came 
under fierce attack particularly from right-wing politicians and Pim 
Fortuyn in his book entitled De puinhopen van acht jaar Paars ("The 
wreckage of eight years Purple")."

Internally the thing has some sway. But externally the country is 
completely shackled. It has no power to effect anything really, and not 
because of its small size.

That's all I wanted to say here.