[Info-vax] RMS intro

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

On 2 Jan 2024 22:05:31 -0000, Scott Dorsey wrote:

> In article <un1s48$2r0sq$1 at dont-email.me>,
> Lawrence D'Oliveiro  <ldo at nz.invalid> wrote:
>
>>On Tue, 2 Jan 2024 19:41:21 -0000 (UTC), Dan Cross wrote:
>>
>>> Furthermore, the rate of change in Linux is high; following along from
>>> outside is fraught.
>>
>>Strange, isn’t it: Microsoft must have access to at least a couple of
>>orders of magnitude greater development resources than that available to
>>the Linux kernel project, yet they cannot keep up with what the Linux
>>developers have achieved.
> 
> This presumes that the high rate of change of Linux is actually good.  I
> rather suspect it is not.

You can think in terms of passive users of a project, versus active 
contributors to the project.

In the open-source world, those passive users don’t matter so much: the 
ones that matter are the active contributors.

The passive users also include the type who like to complain about things 
and bemoan the fact that the project doesn’t cater to their needs.