Re: Where Fedora Went Wrong (nice conclusion)

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On Tuesday 15 May 2007, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>Mauriat M wrote:
[...]
>>
>> Must I contribute to expect a somewhat stable and useful general
>> purpose operating system?
>
>It would be better if you would. You can choose to not contribute
>anything back and only expect to get everything for free but if
>everybody chooses to be selfish you wouldn't get what you are getting.
>This is a ecosystem that relies folks investing resources like their own
>time or money.
>
>If you have the time to complain you have time to contribute. If you
>don't find this system suitable find another one. It's not like there is
>a death of choices. No point in constantly abusing the system while
>relying on it.
>
>Rahul

To emphasis that point, some of us do contribute, by making sure the kernel 
you'll use in F7 works and is stable.  To illustrate, I'm running 
2.6.21.1-cfs-v12 right now.  I'd like to think that because I'm out here  
kicking its tires and checking its front end alignment & testing its 
horsepower on the dyno, and how it feels on the daily grind, so by the time 
you get around to shipping F7, then I've probably been running the kernel 
you'll use for quite some time and it should be pretty bulletproof at least 
on my hardware.  I figure my efforts are a genuine contribution, the canary 
in the coal mine if you will.

It (cleaning up after the canary) can be a dirty job, but somebody has to do 
it. :)

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Cheers, Gene
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