Claudio Matsuoka: “Mandriva should study Debian and SuSE solutions more carefully and choose the best ones to replace their Red Hat-inherited counterparts not to risk be lagging behind in technology and reliability.”
Claudio Matsuoka: “Mandriva should study Debian and SuSE solutions more carefully and choose the best ones to replace their Red Hat-inherited counterparts not to risk be lagging behind in technology and reliability.”
While Matsuoka is open-minded in regard to other Linux distributions, his quote misses some of the key aspects of innovation on whole. All open source projects, in particular linux distributions, have novel features that make each userbase sing their praise.
Without shared principles and goals, there is no evaluation framework for improvemetns, whether new inventations, or shamelessley borrowed from the pervasive commons of opensource that already exist today.
Edward Debono talks at length about this in his books on thinking. Western culture is imbued with the concept of “idea vs idea” “one vs two” “republican vs democrat” “right vs wrong.” There are simply too many needs, too many ideas, too many diverse backgrounds, and too many innovators in a community, say Debian, to have “right vs wrong” arguments and still keep up with the innovation cuvrve.
I agree with the sentiment of borrowing the technology, not the solutions themselves, borrowing at that level of abstraction leads to bake-offs at best, and american politics if you’re not so lucky.