Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Portage QOS

[Greg KH <gregkh@gentoo.org>]

On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 04:10:18PM +0400, Igor wrote:
> Hello Chris,
> 
> Friday, January 10, 2014, 1:08:39 AM, you wrote:
> 
> > Right here is the big problem: you're not looking at this from the
> > perspective of the average Gentoo developer. We don't care about market
> > share. We don't care whether we're on top for another few years. There
> > are several forks of Gentoo. I doubt most devs care about them. I
> > personally know that we're not going to compete with Debian, which has a
> > huge contributor, or Ubuntu or Red Hat, which have whole companies
> > behind them. You're selling this as if you're selling to a company which
> > wants to be on the top of the market and beating out competitors, and
> > that's not what we are. We are a source-based distro that requires some
> > effort from users, and people want that or they don't want it.
> >> What we need is a vote YES or NO. If you against it - vote NO. It's
> >> perfectly normal, if there would be no NO there would be no need voting.
> 
> Thank you for you opinion. 
> 
> The competition in open source world is much harder than with
> commercial software. 3 commercial systems share 96% of the users.

Really?  What market?  Last I looked, more Linux systems were being run
on processors than any other single kernel.

Don't confuse desktops for "all of computing".

> 1,6% of the users are shared by 296 Linux distros

Really?  And what is the number of total users you are talking about
here?

> You may think that you're outside this rules but the competition is natural 
> on the planet and Gentoo is certainly competing weather you want it or not.

No, we aren't competing with anyone, please realize that this is not how
Linux distros and the ecosystem works at all.

Remember, Red Hat is Gentoo's engineering team :)

good luck,

greg k-h