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Vitalik Buterin

We are indeed currently in the process of large changes to EF leadership structure, which has been ongoing for close to a year. Some of this has already been executed on and made public, and some is still in progress. What we're trying to achieve is primarily the following goals: * Improve level of technical expertise within EF leadership * Improve two-way communications and ties between EF leadership and the ecosystem actors, old and new, that it is our role to support: users (individual and institutional), app devs, wallets, L2s * Bring in fresh talent, improve execution ability and speed * Become more actively supportive of app builders, and make sure important values and inalienable rights (esp privacy, open source, censorship resistance) are a reality for users including at the app layer * Continue to increase our use of decentralized and privacy tech and the Ethereum chain, including for payments and treasury management ...

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... Explicit *non-goals* are: * Execute some kind of ideological / vibez pivot from feminized wef soyboy mentality to bronze age mindset * Start aggressively lobbying regulators and powerful political figures (esp in USA, but really anywhere, especially large powerful countries), and risking compromising Ethereum's position as a global neutral platform * Become an arena for vested interests * Become a highly centralized org, or even more of a "main character" within Ethereum These things aren't what EF does and this isn't going to change. People seeking a different vision are welcome to start their own orgs.

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I've been reading Eric Raymond's The Cathedral and the Bazaar and I see a lot of similarities between the path taken the Linux community and what the Ethereum community is trying to do. But I wonder if the lessons from Linux necessary apply to Ethereum in the same way, ...for one, the Linux community had a very diverse ecosystem of distros similar to what Ethereum is gunning for with L2s, but the user experience on any of these distros didn't suffer from liquidity fragmentation issues the Ethereum users have to contend with today.

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Oh, yes, they did (and they still do). Not financial liquidity, but attention, support, compatibility, dev energy. Otoh, without Linux, we wouldn't have Google, Facebook, blogging, the web as we know it, all these things could not have been built on top of Oracle and Sun servers.

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Yes I can see how DevX suffers if I have to ship software for quite a lot of distros to reach a significant user base in Linux. But like L2 clusters today distros existed in families (Debian, Arch, Redhat) that often shared source making it a lot easier to for devs to support all the many distros that exist and reach their users However unlike an OS distro where all my apps exist in the same environment, I have to use @zora for NFTs, @fuel-network for payments, @celo for ReFi, @arbitrum for DeFi and @base for DePIN. That is very messy UX and that's what I was referring to.

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Yes, from this pov. On the other hand, it was RH with Gnome default, but maybe KDE, and SuSE with KDE default, but maybe XFCE. And maybe sendmail, maybe postfix, initd vs systemd and so on... Analogies can get so far, but if I have to make one, Deb/Arch/RH --> OP/Arb/ZKSync But I agree, it is messy. And even if we get the OP superchain, and the equivalent across L2 families, all of them will be good for the basics, but each one will be better at something. Same way that "which distro", is answered by "what do you want to do, where will you install it".

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