Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 19th Jul 2007 22:42 UTC, submitted by WillM
"Remember the 1980s worries about how the 'forking' of Unix could hurt that operating system's chances for adoption? That was nothing compared to the mess we've got today with Linux, where upwards of 300 distributions vie for the attention of computer users seeking an alternative to Windows."
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2006-01-16
"Market" doesn't play much with OSS. For businesses sure, but I for example am an Ubuntu user. But I'm not noted for it anywhere. I didn't pay for it, I didn't register it, and if I didn't tell anyone, no one would know about it.
You can't know the number of Linux distribution users, and saying that "market" choses the successful distributions is wrong. It has an impact, but for example Debian and Ubuntu were first community successful and only then "market" successful.
The compiz beryl fork was also a good thing(tm). If it didn't happen, we'd loose all the beryl devels and their work.