Interesting read about the future of Ubuntu

[Robert Holtzman]

On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 11:53:13PM +0000, Avi Greenbury wrote:
> Robert Holtzman wrote:
> 
> > > Robert Holtzman wrote:
> > > 
> > > So far, Autocracy appears to be the 'better' option :)
> > 
> > In terms of what?
> 
> In terms of the aims of the distro. For Ubuntu that's popularity, so
> that seems a pretty good way to measure it. I do think that the sorts
> of things that you need to do to gain popularity are generally better
> effected under less bureaucratic sorts of leadership, if only because
> of their efficiency and agility.

I think that's called a dictatorship. 

> 
> > > Mark's 'autocracy' is quite unuique amongst distributions, and
> > > Ubuntu (as a distribution aimimg for market share) is pretty high
> > > among the most popular distributions
> > 
> > If "better" is to be measured in terms of popularity, we all know what
> > would win.....and it sure ain't a linux distro. That doesn't make it
> > better in any way that matters to me. 
> 
> Well, no, I wasn't going on your particular values; aside from not
> knowing what they are it would make sense to consider the success of
> anything on the grounds of what it intends to be rather than what you
> wish it to be.
> > 
> > > - anyone not wanting to be involved in an
> > > autocratically-lead distro would surely find themselves involved in
> > > a more *cratic one, depending on their preference?
> > Example?
> 
> The only one that immediately comes to mind is Debian. But, of course,
> its other values might well be at odds with yours.

If you mean it's unswerving devotion to open source only, I tend to
agree, except I'm not quite so fanatical.

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> 
> But I've never been overly concerned with the governance of distros -
> all still aim for being the best they can, if some do so only as a
> means to popularity. I think that it's nice that Ubuntu has the sort of
> governance to make it occasionally do things completely differently
> from anyone else, but then I already have a different distro with which
> I'm in almost complete agreement with - Ubuntu's very much my second
> distro.

Care to share which one that is?

-- 
Bob Holtzman
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