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Support Linux by Not Writing Linux-Only Software

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– November 6, 2011Posted in: Article, News, Opinion, Submitted

Phoronix ran a story today about the keynote address at this year’s Fedora India Conference.  The speech can be viewed in its entirety here, but one quote in particular is drawing attention:

The number one enemy we have today is ourselves. And I mean that with all seriousness. Too many times we shoot ourselves in our own foot, by the way we act, the way we deal with people, in our narrowminded-ness that we develop.

The quote and ensuing explanation appears around the 44:00 mark.  It’s worth a watch.

This is a great quote not just for Linux developers and contributors, but for Linux users as well.  It’s especially interesting coming from a Fedora project leader, considering the Fedora project is well-known for its very myopic rules about included software.  (FYI – Fedora does not include any proprietary software, including proprietary drivers, Adobe Flash, Skype, etc.  Is that an example of “shooting yourself in the foot”…?)


In this article, I’m not going talk about the obvious “Linux is its own worst enemy” topics.  Plenty of other people are more qualified to talk about hardware support, FOSS jingoism, obnoxious users, design problems.  No, I’d like to mention something more obscure, but still deserving of attention:

Developing software exclusively for Linux.

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Tags: Adobe Flash, fedora, Fedora Project, linux, operating system, Phoronix, skype, ubuntu

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