[Wolves] Too many cooks

[Andy Wootton]

Kevanf1 wrote:

>>to do want you want with the code.  That's the whole ethos of the OSS
>>community.  Isn't it?
>>
>>:-)))
>>    
>>
It's always been one of the greatest strengths and weaknesses of 
Unix-style OS. Software evolves and the best versions survive by natural 
selection. You might call that a free market. This is a problem for 
Linux because companies have been operating under 'state-control' by 
Microsoft for so long that they no longer have people who are capable of 
tracking technical alternatives and making risk-assessed choices about 
their long-term viability. Linux looks about as atractive to the average 
senior IT manager as the end of communism did to the manager of a 
Russian factory.

I've always been frustrated by the reluctance of distros before Ubuntu 
to make choices between alternative packages on their customers behalf. 
Most people don't want choice, just one thing that works. I think this 
applies to schools and hospitals too. None of the major political 
parties seemed to agree with me at the last election though. It was "all 
about choice".

Ubuntu chose to pick one of everything. Unfortunately, it picked a 
Windows 'one big tool that does everything' model, Outlook clone as a 
mail and news client and calendar. I guess I want to be advised but not 
instructed on the best way forward.

Woo