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[Gnu-arch-users] Re: arch roadmap 1 (and "what's tom up to")
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Miles Bader |
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[Gnu-arch-users] Re: arch roadmap 1 (and "what's tom up to") |
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Tue, 13 Jul 2004 10:05:30 +0900 |
address@hidden (James Blackwell) writes:
> Let's hypothesize for a moment. Hypothetically speaking, Tom goes
> bonkers and decides that from now on, instead of using english, arch
> would use piglatin. This most unpopular decision would result in the
> other significant developers to start following a different tree. Tom
> would be left alone.
Sure, but there's a lot of hysteresis -- most tla users already trust
Tom, and are used to him, and so won't abandon his tree without a fairly
strong incentive (at least quickly; if someone else's version of tla
were just "slightly" better, there might be a gradual drift of users to
it).
That means that Tom (like Linus) has a fair amount of wiggle room, and
_can_ make decisions that are unpopular in the short-term without losing
his users. This is a very good thing because sometimes such actions are
necessary.
[Of course forks are not always so clear-cut anyway, if the maintainers
of different trees are all merging from each other (e.g., the different
BSD forks -- though judging from the abysmal OpenBSD benchmark numbers I
saw recently, they're not doing it enough!).]
-Miles
--
`...the Soviet Union was sliding in to an economic collapse so comprehensive
that in the end its factories produced not goods but bads: finished products
less valuable than the raw materials they were made from.' [The Economist]
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: arch roadmap 1 (and "what's tom up to"), (continued)
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: arch roadmap 1 (and "what's tom up to"), James Blackwell, 2004/07/12
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: arch roadmap 1 (and "what's tom up to"), Samium Gromoff, 2004/07/12
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: arch roadmap 1 (and "what's tom up to"), John Meinel, 2004/07/12
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: arch roadmap 1 (and "what's tom up to"), Stephen J. Turnbull, 2004/07/13
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: arch roadmap 1 (and "what's tom up to"), James Blackwell, 2004/07/12
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: arch roadmap 1 (and "what's tom up to"), Samium Gromoff, 2004/07/12
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: arch roadmap 1 (and "what's tom up to"),
Miles Bader <=
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: arch roadmap 1 (and "what's tom up to"), James Blackwell, 2004/07/12
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: arch roadmap 1 (and "what's tom up to"), Tom Lord, 2004/07/12
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: arch roadmap 1 (and "what's tom up to"), Stephen J. Turnbull, 2004/07/14
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: arch roadmap 1 (and "what's tom up to"), Miles Bader, 2004/07/14
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: arch roadmap 1 (and "what's tom up to"), Magnus Therning, 2004/07/07
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: arch roadmap 1 (and "what's tom up to"), Jan Hudec, 2004/07/08
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: arch roadmap 1 (and "what's tom up to"), Tom Lord, 2004/07/06
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: arch roadmap 1 (and "what's tom up to"), Tom Lord, 2004/07/06
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: arch roadmap 1 (and "what's tom up to"), Colin Walters, 2004/07/06
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: arch roadmap 1 (and "what's tom up to"), Tom Lord, 2004/07/06