On Sat, 2009-12-26 at 17:46 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Sat, 26 Dec 2009 11:14:29 -0800 > Suvayu Ali wrote: > > > If it were _just eye-candy_, so many developers wouldn't have spent so > > much of their time on the project. > > I've never noticed any correlation between the value of a > project and the amount of developers piling on. It's also not always obvious what the final value of a project is going to be. Linux itself was just a grad student's toy that Linus did because it was cool (started as a terminal emulator) and was only useful to other geeks, only worked on very specific hardware, etc. Nobody (least of all Linus) ever foresaw World Domination :-) --Greg -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
