Well something must have changed, otherwise the police would have been doing it for some time, which to my knowledge, they have not.
No, I don't suppose we'd have known. And I don't suppose it'd be the police.
The difference is that you could then pick up and leave town, and start over again somewhere. With this technology and the internet, can you really leave your old life behind anymore?
And here is one of the points where you and I will probably just differ. I believe that people are who they were, and the it should absolutely be non-trivial to move to another place and do the same thing again without anyone knowing you did it before.
Try reading 1984 for some reasons why this might be a bad idea (and not possible without some technology behind the process).
I should re-read it. Been a long time.
Here again I think we will differ. The problem was not that information was gathered. It was that all information was gathered, kept, and disseminated (or not) by the government, for the government. If anyone had access to the information the government was tracking, it would have been a very different story... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_society http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunshine_law
The product mentioned is talked about in terms of law enforcement because that's who the likely purchaser is. Nothing is stopping you and I from picking up a few of these, tracking the movements of the millions, and sharing the information for free to anyone who asks. The other side of the coin is that anyone who decides to set up such a network has a right to retain the data they collect. The edge of the coin is that if the government (or bodies) collect that data, the data belongs to you and me.
Up until now though, it wasn't possible to track you throughout the city with a device on your car.
Sigh. A camera with OCR software isn't that big an idea. The notion that it wasn't possible is a little naiive - as is the idea that this is the first time it's happened.
This is the first time it's been AVAILABLE to you and me for cheap.
I'm sure you'd be quite annoyed if someone was following you around all day. This is no different. People may see I go to the grocery store, but I don't feel like anyone has the right to record that and make it known to everyone.
Here in the US, people have the freedom (in general) to move in public and to speak. There are stalking laws, and all that, but in general anyone could have done that at any time. The truth is that nobody actually cares when you go to the grocers - except the grocer. And they track you with discount cards. If there was reliable, cheap facial imaging software, they'd use that.
Really, the whole notion that this is new and frightening is a little silly. In them olden days, you went to the same grocer all the time, got served by the same person, maybe kept a tab and paid it off monthly, and everyone thought it was handy that the grocer knew what you needed. Yeah, they weren't owned by a big company, but the big company isn't any more frightening for not having a face.
...so you drive around with your name, SSN, home address, and phone number written on your car?
No, but my vehicle happens to be registered to me. My driver's license lists my home address. My vehicle is also often parked at my home address (do the math). My telephone number is available in (reverse lookup as well) the yellow pages.
But that has nothing to do with this technology. This just let's people capture your license plate. So what's your point?
As an undergrad in the 80s, I worked with some computers in a university chemistry lab. In this lab, one of the research professors was developing "shape fitting" methods to design drug molecules. Need to attack a certain receptor? Design a drug that fits. Need to protect a certain receptor? Design a drug that plugs the hole until the intended natural molecule is present. It was all very next-century super-futuristic stuff.
Now that computers should be able to handle that task easily, I rarely hear anything about it anymore...
You have to find the receptor. You have to design a drug to fit in the receptor. You have to figure out (mostly guess) whether or not the drug will actually bind at the receptor. You have to figure out (at least guess) as to whether or not the drug will kill people in addition to stopping acne. You have to figure out how to make the drug. Then you have to actually go through all the trials.
If you mass test random potential compounds against random proteins, you get to cut out some of those steps.
There are companies that do the designer route, but it seems like most go for the shotgun "spray a bunch of compounds at a bunch of proteins and see what sticks".
Really, we don't even know how these proteins are gonna fold, so we're a ways away from automating designer drugs.
*I am not a biologist, chemist, physicist, etc. I'm a programmer.*
There may not be a reshaping of the Internet, but there could very well be a reshaping of Verizon/BellSouth DSL & Comcast/Roadrunner Cable. For the vast majority of people in the US, that would amount to the same thing.
I don't doubt they'd like that. I doubt that they'll manage it. If they manage *and people notice*, it won't stand. If they manage, and some people notice, I imagine it will amount to them signing their own death warrant, as competitors come in to stomp 'em.
Google has a lot of money, and while they're doing the "Free Internet in just 2 cities, and no interest in doing more" right now, I'd expect them to swoop in and crush anyone who got out of line as far as providing access goes. Not out of some benevolence (though I honestly think that plays a part), but out of competence and the ability to capitalize on a market.
Part of me would like to see it happen. It'd be exciting!
Part of me also does not understand why network neutrality is an issue for the courts. If my neighbors started sapping my network access enough for me to really notice (it's wide open, folks - come on over!), I'd become an immediate implementor of subnet throttling. What on earth keeps AT&T from doing that right now. In fact, don't they? My DSL line constitutes a subnet, and I'm being throttled. I guess neutrality has more to do with where the packets are going at the far end of the connection - which means YOU are being throttled RIGHT NOW, as you try to reach my subnet. Still, I don't understand why it's in the courts. Sigh - I guess there are folks with little choice in their ISP/dialup. This is still a tricky issue to me...
... It is truly shocking that more Americans have heard about an issue that has existed many times longer longer than the word "cyberspace" than the recent goings on in congress related to the latter.
Number of people who will be directly affected by a flagburning amendment in their day-to-day activities: roughly 0. (note that I'll be seriously tempted to do the civil disobedience thing if such a stupid amendment was passed) Number of people who may be directly affected by internet laws: roughly 50% of the US population. (note that I used UUCP before the "capital I Internet", and could swap back to UUCP and grassroots LAN/WAN/telephone for most of what I do. Long live UseNet, and all that.)
Yes, more people should be aware of and care about this, but this is a ridiculous way to word it. Also in the news, more people have opinions on school choice than IPv6 adoption. Shocking!
Number of people who will be directly affected by school choice: everyone who has kids. Number of people that will be affected by IPv6: very few - if the ISPs, Software, and hardware vendors get things right.
... The reshaping of the internet will be done SOLELY by Microsoft, AT&T/SBC, Verizon, Google, Cisco, Amazon, Hollywood, and the usual suspects. They will be writing the laws and casting the votes.
Actually, I control the internet. Al invented it, but I bought it off him for $5.
All that said, I don't think there will be any reshaping of the internet. Not in any way that matters. Come on - we can't even fix email, and we know what most of the problems are. There are things I do/don't want to see happen, but I think everything will be work-aroundable.
Sorry, though I tried to see if I could find it in the post, I obviously didn't read it carefully enough. Happy to see you over on one of our derivaties, though. A lot of our best developers are now employed by Apple, anyway, and changes are shared back and forth (Apple are really good at syncing in the FreeBSD changes, so you get the best of both worlds.)
Yeah, I'm kinda proud of Apple for trying to be a good OSS citizen. Most of the time.
Eivind, who just wish Apple would actually DELIVER the box he ordered so he could test out OSX in practice...
I'll tell ya why I dropped FreeBSD:
Apple seems pretty committed to major updates every 2 years or so, and that's plenty enough for me. FreeBSD seems to have picked up the pace (too fast).
Apple does automagic updates out of the box that work. I actually submitted a bug about FreeBSD's update system - that it was not automagic enough.
Apple ships Java out of the box. FreeBSD said they would back in the pre-4.5 days, and still has not. I know you can build it in, but I like it to be there already - I have enough to wrangle just to make the box suit me.
Now, we are down to something that can be discussed. Was it that everything is just different? Or specific functionality that you missed?
It's been a while, so I'm not going to remember everything...
Different I can generally handle. Missing is another story. The example of switching video resolution and depth is something that I simply could not find at all, and that's bad. I really didn't give the system much time to grow on me, but nor did I really expect it to do much. I did not like the window manager (no, I don't remember which it was). I did not like the file manager. Both of those can be replaced, sure, but I wasn't going to use the system for long enough for it to be worthwhile to me.
Ah, yes - I had 2 drives and 2 ethernet cards. It seems to me the cards came up fine and configured fine. The 2nd drive came up, but it was very hard for me to format and mount it. Eventually I had to do it on the commandline and edit/etc/fstab by hand. That's lame.
I want to say there was some issue with the sound - not that it didn't work, but that I couldn't get it to play nice. I'm afraid I don't recall. I also think I tried to do some user management and threw up my hands. Again, I'm not at all sure.
In general what I miss about OSX when I'm another *nix is the Services menu that every standard app has - and the unified look/feel/functionality. The fact that all the hardware works out of the box is really nice, but there's nothing linux can do about that - they just have to fight the uphill battle.
The things I would like to see in OSX are mount_sftp, better support for VPN (tun & tap drivers by Apple, or better support for them), and a full, recent gtk port so we'd get some of the groovy gtk apps native (not X11). I have some peeves about some of the apps that Apple ships (Mail, iPhoto, iTunes), but not enough for me to bother swapping them for something else (though until recently I did not use iPhoto).
I'm not bothered by your opinions; I'm bothered that you think "there" is some sort of concrete place that we're all trying to reach.
Ah, then it seems I've just not made the terms clear. "There" is the place where joe user can pick up a disty and feel comfortable and happy with it. It is defined by the ever shifting market. We will know that a disty has reached "there" when lots and lots of people start using it. In the meantime, all we can do is predict "thereness". Any number of linux disty's have claimed to be there, not quite there, or past there.
In my not so humble opinion, Ubuntu Linux isn't there, yet.
Frankly, I think knoppix is closer to there for it's target than ubuntu is - at least from my last knoppix and my last ubuntu installs.
(1) did you try installing OS X on that hardware? How did that work out?
Don't be inane.
(2) Did you install Windows on that box? Get anything other than VESA modes?... And, if its an old video card, did you manage to find Windows XP drivers? Or are you back at Windows 9x?
Win2K on it for years.
Why didn't you report on that? Inquiring minds really want to know.
OK, you missed the point. Install was harder than it should have been - but mostly the system remained a pain to use even after I had the video working. THAT is the important part. If it's just messing with a couple of drivers, I can do that once and be done. It's everything after that which makes it not ready.
Are there any reliable management softwares there for Macs that guarntee me 24*7 operations with easy to use backups and restoration of whole deployment? May be I am wrong but Macs are not meant for enterprise scenario. Correct me whereever I wrong.
OS X is unix in the same way that linux is unix. Neither of them is unix, but they do the same thing. This conversation started talking about the desktop (which I feel isn't ready in Ubuntu land, but I should check out kubuntu). XServes are "good enough" for any medium sized business, and good enough for most large businesses. But they're probably not enough for fortune 500 - at least not alone. I think that Apple still runs Oracle on some of SUNs big iron - but most (maybe all) of the webservers are probably xserves by now. As you know, OSX primary target is the home user, but there is unix under there - and it is up to most of the big tasks; just not some of the huge ones, I think.
Hey that sounds great. However one more thing I need to know "Is It FREE".
I'm not sure what you mean by FREE. If you mean Open Source, then probably not (though http://www.opendarwin.org/ , etc). If you mean $0, then almost certainly not (though there are plenty of ports of open source software, and unported stuff generally ports trivially if you're willing to run X11)
Also can we run Data Center of a REAL organization on Macs? I know we can do it on Solaris.
I guess it depends what you need to do, but without knowing your specific needs, I'd guess so. (See also my other post to your other questions)
... my dev enviornment(JBoss,PostgreSQL, SJSES8.0 and other stuff with gcvs also)... And yes I dont own a Mac as it is of no use to me, I am an enterprise architect...
Can we all just cut the "it's not there yet" bullshit out?
Not really. My bigheadedness pretty much prevents that. Oh, and the market does have some say in the matter.
Someone please correct me! The fact that linux' marketshare on the desktop is vanishingly small - even though it is free! - implies pretty strongly that the market agrees with my big head. So as soon as people start to migrate from windows and macos (in number) to linux, we'll have a pretty good indicator that "it's there."
In the meantime, please prepend "IMNSHO" to everything everybody writes - including me.
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Could we have this stuff in a format non-windows-users can view?
OK, I'm just whining.
You do know that your employer is required by law to give you time off to vote, don't you?
Not true in all cases - though it looks like roughly 3/5ths of the states do *something* about it:
http://www.timetovote.net/voter_leave_laws.html
Fair enough.
But I think we already have plenty of laws against the actions of those who would use this kind of thing to further their own illegal ends.
Well something must have changed, otherwise the police would have been doing it for some time, which to my knowledge, they have not.
No, I don't suppose we'd have known. And I don't suppose it'd be the police.
The difference is that you could then pick up and leave town, and start over again somewhere. With this technology and the internet, can you really leave your old life behind anymore?
And here is one of the points where you and I will probably just differ. I believe that people are who they were, and the it should absolutely be non-trivial to move to another place and do the same thing again without anyone knowing you did it before.
Try reading 1984 for some reasons why this might be a bad idea (and not possible without some technology behind the process).
I should re-read it. Been a long time.
Here again I think we will differ. The problem was not that information was gathered. It was that all information was gathered, kept, and disseminated (or not) by the government, for the government. If anyone had access to the information the government was tracking, it would have been a very different story...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_society
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunshine_law
The product mentioned is talked about in terms of law enforcement because that's who the likely purchaser is. Nothing is stopping you and I from picking up a few of these, tracking the movements of the millions, and sharing the information for free to anyone who asks. The other side of the coin is that anyone who decides to set up such a network has a right to retain the data they collect. The edge of the coin is that if the government (or bodies) collect that data, the data belongs to you and me.
And once you remove the possiblity of the surveillance being observed, you open a whole new set of issues.
I disagree.
Up until now though, it wasn't possible to track you throughout the city with a device on your car.
Sigh. A camera with OCR software isn't that big an idea. The notion that it wasn't possible is a little naiive - as is the idea that this is the first time it's happened.
This is the first time it's been AVAILABLE to you and me for cheap.
I'm sure you'd be quite annoyed if someone was following you around all day. This is no different. People may see I go to the grocery store, but I don't feel like anyone has the right to record that and make it known to everyone.
Here in the US, people have the freedom (in general) to move in public and to speak. There are stalking laws, and all that, but in general anyone could have done that at any time. The truth is that nobody actually cares when you go to the grocers - except the grocer. And they track you with discount cards. If there was reliable, cheap facial imaging software, they'd use that.
Really, the whole notion that this is new and frightening is a little silly. In them olden days, you went to the same grocer all the time, got served by the same person, maybe kept a tab and paid it off monthly, and everyone thought it was handy that the grocer knew what you needed. Yeah, they weren't owned by a big company, but the big company isn't any more frightening for not having a face.
...so you drive around with your name, SSN, home address, and phone number written on your car?
No, but my vehicle happens to be registered to me. My driver's license lists my home address. My vehicle is also often parked at my home address (do the math). My telephone number is available in (reverse lookup as well) the yellow pages.
But that has nothing to do with this technology. This just let's people capture your license plate. So what's your point?
As you (or the vehicle licensed to you) move though public places, your movements may be noted. That's all there is to it.
Nothing to see here. Move along.
How do I spoof the system so I can get this information from my computer before I leave the office?
Wow. Dunno if preferences got ugly in the css rewrite, or what. Sure has been a long time since I had to change them, and the layout is .. not better.
Anyway, 1M times thanks.
Wow. I just went to edit which stories I see, and I see I can no longer do that.
Hurry up with the tagging beta, and let me ignore backslash tags, already.
As an undergrad in the 80s, I worked with some computers in a university chemistry lab. In this lab, one of the research professors was developing "shape fitting" methods to design drug molecules. Need to attack a certain receptor? Design a drug that fits. Need to protect a certain receptor? Design a drug that plugs the hole until the intended natural molecule is present. It was all very next-century super-futuristic stuff.
Now that computers should be able to handle that task easily, I rarely hear anything about it anymore...
You have to find the receptor. You have to design a drug to fit in the receptor. You have to figure out (mostly guess) whether or not the drug will actually bind at the receptor. You have to figure out (at least guess) as to whether or not the drug will kill people in addition to stopping acne. You have to figure out how to make the drug. Then you have to actually go through all the trials.
If you mass test random potential compounds against random proteins, you get to cut out some of those steps.
There are companies that do the designer route, but it seems like most go for the shotgun "spray a bunch of compounds at a bunch of proteins and see what sticks".
Really, we don't even know how these proteins are gonna fold, so we're a ways away from automating designer drugs.
*I am not a biologist, chemist, physicist, etc. I'm a programmer.*
There may not be a reshaping of the Internet, but there could very well be a reshaping of Verizon/BellSouth DSL & Comcast/Roadrunner Cable. For the vast majority of people in the US, that would amount to the same thing.
I don't doubt they'd like that. I doubt that they'll manage it. If they manage *and people notice*, it won't stand. If they manage, and some people notice, I imagine it will amount to them signing their own death warrant, as competitors come in to stomp 'em.
Google has a lot of money, and while they're doing the "Free Internet in just 2 cities, and no interest in doing more" right now, I'd expect them to swoop in and crush anyone who got out of line as far as providing access goes. Not out of some benevolence (though I honestly think that plays a part), but out of competence and the ability to capitalize on a market.
Part of me would like to see it happen. It'd be exciting!
Part of me also does not understand why network neutrality is an issue for the courts. If my neighbors started sapping my network access enough for me to really notice (it's wide open, folks - come on over!), I'd become an immediate implementor of subnet throttling. What on earth keeps AT&T from doing that right now. In fact, don't they? My DSL line constitutes a subnet, and I'm being throttled. I guess neutrality has more to do with where the packets are going at the far end of the connection - which means YOU are being throttled RIGHT NOW, as you try to reach my subnet. Still, I don't understand why it's in the courts. Sigh - I guess there are folks with little choice in their ISP/dialup. This is still a tricky issue to me...
... It is truly shocking that more Americans have heard about an issue that has existed many times longer longer than the word "cyberspace" than the recent goings on in congress related to the latter.
... The reshaping of the internet will be done SOLELY by Microsoft, AT&T/SBC, Verizon, Google, Cisco, Amazon, Hollywood, and the usual suspects. They will be writing the laws and casting the votes.
Number of people who will be directly affected by a flagburning amendment in their day-to-day activities: roughly 0.
(note that I'll be seriously tempted to do the civil disobedience thing if such a stupid amendment was passed)
Number of people who may be directly affected by internet laws: roughly 50% of the US population.
(note that I used UUCP before the "capital I Internet", and could swap back to UUCP and grassroots LAN/WAN/telephone for most of what I do. Long live UseNet, and all that.)
Yes, more people should be aware of and care about this, but this is a ridiculous way to word it. Also in the news, more people have opinions on school choice than IPv6 adoption. Shocking!
Number of people who will be directly affected by school choice: everyone who has kids.
Number of people that will be affected by IPv6: very few - if the ISPs, Software, and hardware vendors get things right.
Actually, I control the internet. Al invented it, but I bought it off him for $5.
All that said, I don't think there will be any reshaping of the internet. Not in any way that matters. Come on - we can't even fix email, and we know what most of the problems are. There are things I do/don't want to see happen, but I think everything will be work-aroundable.
I have never installed fedora. Next time I'm installing some flavor of linux, I'll give it a spin.
Thanks for the tip.
Yeah, I'm kinda proud of Apple for trying to be a good OSS citizen. Most of the time.
Eivind, who just wish Apple would actually DELIVER the box he ordered so he could test out OSX in practice...
I'll tell ya why I dropped FreeBSD:
Now, we are down to something that can be discussed. Was it that everything is just different? Or specific functionality that you missed?
/etc/fstab by hand. That's lame.
It's been a while, so I'm not going to remember everything...
Different I can generally handle. Missing is another story. The example of switching video resolution and depth is something that I simply could not find at all, and that's bad. I really didn't give the system much time to grow on me, but nor did I really expect it to do much. I did not like the window manager (no, I don't remember which it was). I did not like the file manager. Both of those can be replaced, sure, but I wasn't going to use the system for long enough for it to be worthwhile to me.
Ah, yes - I had 2 drives and 2 ethernet cards. It seems to me the cards came up fine and configured fine. The 2nd drive came up, but it was very hard for me to format and mount it. Eventually I had to do it on the commandline and edit
I want to say there was some issue with the sound - not that it didn't work, but that I couldn't get it to play nice. I'm afraid I don't recall. I also think I tried to do some user management and threw up my hands. Again, I'm not at all sure.
In general what I miss about OSX when I'm another *nix is the Services menu that every standard app has - and the unified look/feel/functionality. The fact that all the hardware works out of the box is really nice, but there's nothing linux can do about that - they just have to fight the uphill battle.
The things I would like to see in OSX are mount_sftp, better support for VPN (tun & tap drivers by Apple, or better support for them), and a full, recent gtk port so we'd get some of the groovy gtk apps native (not X11). I have some peeves about some of the apps that Apple ships (Mail, iPhoto, iTunes), but not enough for me to bother swapping them for something else (though until recently I did not use iPhoto).
You don't understand me, do you?
I can be slow.
I'm not bothered by your opinions; I'm bothered that you think "there" is some sort of concrete place that we're all trying to reach.
Ah, then it seems I've just not made the terms clear. "There" is the place where joe user can pick up a disty and feel comfortable and happy with it. It is defined by the ever shifting market. We will know that a disty has reached "there" when lots and lots of people start using it. In the meantime, all we can do is predict "thereness". Any number of linux disty's have claimed to be there, not quite there, or past there.
In my not so humble opinion, Ubuntu Linux isn't there, yet.
Frankly, I think knoppix is closer to there for it's target than ubuntu is - at least from my last knoppix and my last ubuntu installs.
(1) did you try installing OS X on that hardware? How did that work out?
Don't be inane.
(2) Did you install Windows on that box? Get anything other than VESA modes?... And, if its an old video card, did you manage to find Windows XP drivers? Or are you back at Windows 9x?
Win2K on it for years.
Why didn't you report on that? Inquiring minds really want to know.
OK, you missed the point. Install was harder than it should have been - but mostly the system remained a pain to use even after I had the video working. THAT is the important part. If it's just messing with a couple of drivers, I can do that once and be done. It's everything after that which makes it not ready.
...And if I can run it on Macs then how do I do vertical scaling of my system? What about Fault Tolerance and Availability
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http://www.apple.com/xserve/raid/
I would wait for the intel versions to be released unless you're in a hurry.
what are commercial network management applications like Unicenter or Tivoli available for enterprise deployment of Macs.
I've never heard of either.
Unicenter: Just don't know.
Tivoli: http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx
Are there any reliable management softwares there for Macs that guarntee me 24*7 operations with easy to use backups and restoration of whole deployment? May be I am wrong but Macs are not meant for enterprise scenario. Correct me whereever I wrong.
http://images.apple.com/server/pdfs/High_Availabi
OS X is unix in the same way that linux is unix. Neither of them is unix, but they do the same thing. This conversation started talking about the desktop (which I feel isn't ready in Ubuntu land, but I should check out kubuntu). XServes are "good enough" for any medium sized business, and good enough for most large businesses. But they're probably not enough for fortune 500 - at least not alone. I think that Apple still runs Oracle on some of SUNs big iron - but most (maybe all) of the webservers are probably xserves by now. As you know, OSX primary target is the home user, but there is unix under there - and it is up to most of the big tasks; just not some of the huge ones, I think.
Hey that sounds great. However one more thing I need to know "Is It FREE".
I'm not sure what you mean by FREE. If you mean Open Source, then probably not (though
http://www.opendarwin.org/ , etc). If you mean $0, then almost certainly not (though there are plenty of ports of open source software, and unported stuff generally ports trivially if you're willing to run X11)
Also can we run Data Center of a REAL organization on Macs? I know we can do it on Solaris.
I guess it depends what you need to do, but without knowing your specific needs, I'd guess so. (See also my other post to your other questions)
You say your servers "was FreeBSD" - what are they now?
"I'm still going to stick with OSX (which is now my server)."
... my dev enviornment(JBoss,PostgreSQL, SJSES8.0 and other stuff with gcvs also)... And yes I dont own a Mac as it is of no use to me, I am an enterprise architect...
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JBoss: included since 10.2
http://developer.apple.com/internet/java/enterpri
PostgreSQL on the Mac: easy
http://developer.apple.com/internet/opensource/po
SJSE: looks like it's not there, yet, but it will be
http://forum.sun.com/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=96
I use Eclipse...
gcvs: I'm guessing you mean some CVS client - there are plenty (MacCVS springs to mind)
By the way my wife who has a masters in biology is currently using Ubuntu...
Oh yeah? Well my wife has a masters in nursing, and she uses a mac. So there! Neener Neener.
Can we all just cut the "it's not there yet" bullshit out?
Not really. My bigheadedness pretty much prevents that. Oh, and the market does have some say in the matter.
Someone please correct me! The fact that linux' marketshare on the desktop is vanishingly small - even though it is free! - implies pretty strongly that the market agrees with my big head. So as soon as people start to migrate from windows and macos (in number) to linux, we'll have a pretty good indicator that "it's there."
In the meantime, please prepend "IMNSHO" to everything everybody writes - including me.
I'm just curious who you are referring to there, as a female OSS project leader is a rare (and wonderful) thing.
Nobody in particular, just choosing that pronoun in the hopes that people would notice that suck a thing is possible.