Fedora and RedHat's autism toward personal users

Paul Gear paul at gear.dyndns.org
Tue Oct 14 10:32:20 UTC 2003


Wil Cooley wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 13:24, Derek P. Moore wrote:
> 
> 
>>Anyways, I just don't see how the web browsers situation is any different from
>>the web servers situations (or how the mail clients situation is any different
>>from the mail servers situation [I definately think Fedora should provide at
>>least Sendmail, Postfix, and qmail {hotmail.com wouldn't use qmail if it wasn't
>>good for something}]).
> 
> 
> Fedora cannot distribute qmail because DJB's license is too restrictive;
> likewise it also fails to meet either GNU or OSI definitions of "Free"
> or "Open Source".  

Not to mention that they insist that filesystems must look like
whatever-BSD if the software is going to work...
-- 
Paul
http://paulgear.webhop.net

A: Because we read from top to bottom, left to right.
Q: Why should i start my reply below the quoted text?
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