[Gllug] Could you build a distro?

[David L Neil]

...
>> But producing a distro isn't problem solving. Once you pick up the tools
>> for it the process is very simple and very boring.
>>
>> The real challenge is retaining the desire to carry on maintaining the
>> distro once it is being used.
>
> Indeed; and this applies very generally; it has often been noted that
> the sort of skills and mind-set needed to get something going in the
> first place are typically not the same as those needed to keep it going
> and growing...

"leadership"* cf "management"

*marketing ppl like to be more exciting and call it "entrepreneurship" 
but that should really be accompanied by "innovation" cf "packaging"

-- 
Regards,
=dn

PS am still chortling over Tet's .SIG about Java (thanks!)
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