On Thursday 24 May 2007 22:45, Pascal Bleser wrote:
Martin Schlander wrote: ...
Also I think some of the goals can be seen as contradictory - making an OS that's great for devs and grandmothers at the same time might prove difficult. Maybe we could balance it more by saying something like "we want to create a powerful, full featured OS, while making it fairly easy to use".
I definitely second that. Saying that we want to do the best for everyone in every situation (almost, didn't mention embedded systems ;)) is also quite vague in terms of mission statement, directions or priorities.
I don't have a better proposal atm (Martin's suits me quite well), but we should think of a _somewhat_ narrowed scope. SUSE is most probably the best allround distribution around right now, and it _is_ good at desktop and server. But still, aiming for all goals is difficult... and vague.
You are right, that aiming for all possible goals is vague. But isn't being an
allround distro a pretty specific goal? My feeling is that this is a big part
of the SUSE identity. We always tried to address a very broad range of users.
In some way this is trying to reach the impossible, but that's not the worst
for a mission statement. Let's leave the realistic goals to the intermediate
steps to world domination ;-)
Maybe we can find a better way to say this, which doesn't sound so vague.
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Cornelius Schumacher