On Saturday 01 August 2009 19:23, Jim Henderson wrote:
What I'm really curious about is what it is that those who *are* threatened by the inclusion of a GNOME option (clearly not all KDE users are threatened by this, so we're talking about what I sincerely hope is a small group of vocal people) are so afraid of with the inclusion of GNOME or the lack of a pre-selection being made for KDE. It is a small group of vocal people.
Are they afraid that users might decide to use something other than KDE and that will somehow cause resource allocation to the KDE project (which is not controlled by Novell *or* openSUSE) to be diminished? No. its basically more human than any of that. Some people are simply afraid of those who are different... not like them. Most of this preference stuff is just that simple---difference fear. Diviersity is a good thing. Choice is a good thing. Diversity and choice strengthen the suse product. Customers like choice, and suse users are fundamentally drawn to customer choice and customer freedom. Chevy-Ford Pepsi-Coke Gnome-KDE suse-ubuntu :) whatever.... and its not just an American thing either. Most folks the world over love choice. Take their choice away, and it will have negative repurcussions. The default should be choice, and don't be swayed by small groups of vocal lobbyists who are threatened by other users personal preferences--choices.
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