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[Gnu-arch-users] [semi-OffTopic] UserLinux
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Tom Lord |
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[Gnu-arch-users] [semi-OffTopic] UserLinux |
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Wed, 17 Dec 2003 16:59:17 -0800 (PST) |
At the moment, this is just a (shared) thought experiment.
I invite people to read Bruce Perens' "UserLinux: Repairing the Economic
Paradigm of Enterprise Linux" (http://userlinux.com/white_paper.html).
There's some things I like about the proposal, and some things I
don't.
I don't want to prejudice your consideration of the proposal _much_,
but I will seed discussion (if there will be any) with two
observations:
~ the proposal is rather anemic on consideration of engineering
process -- aside from "including debian by reference", it mostly
talks about products, not process.
~ as an _economic_paradigm_ essay, it's considerate of consumers,
but silent on labor issues.
It's a total long-shot, I realize -- but an interesting outcome of my
raising the topic might be a joint letter from various members of the
gnu-arch-users list beginning with something like:
"Bruce isn't an engineer by profession or avocation. We don't speak
for all engineers but we are ourselves engineers. Here's our
engineers'-perspective alternative to Bruce's well-intentioned
+proposal."
How would you follow that perspective? What's the _right_ way to
link up the developer community with enterprise (and other, going
beyond Bruce's proposal) consumers?
-t
- [Gnu-arch-users] [semi-OffTopic] UserLinux,
Tom Lord <=