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The Increasing Importance of Community

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the why-does-community-matter dept.

Jono Bacon writes "With the success of Ubuntu and Fedora, and the advent of OpenSuSE and Freespire, are businesses and distributions paying more attention to the community? The Increasing Importance of Community discuss this change in focus. What do you all think? Is the community now more of a priority?"

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  1. Marketing alert! by B0red+At+W0rk · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    The only reason the is a Fedora and an Open Suse is because Red Hat and SUSE want to differenciate the branding of their 1000$++ distributions from what you can freely download on the net. Their client have to feel they are getting something more valuable when they pay them for their enterprise branded versions.

  2. wait a minute by Fluk3 · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Linux community? We already established in a previous article that lunux users are socially inept, condecending, RTFM assholes.

    Linux users aren't helpful - they are only intrested in pointing out how it's not linux's fault that it sucks as a desktop. It's the fault of n00b users and win-modems and so-forth.

    The Mac community is the best. Helpful, friendly people giving good advice that actually makes things work when and if they don't out-of-the-box.

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    I've been upgraded to "bad"!