Fedora/RH policies sometimes suck

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Thu Apr 12 12:38:01 UTC 2007


Scott van Looy wrote:
> Today Matthew Miller did spake thusly:
> 
>> On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 07:15:36AM -0400, Lyvim Xaphir wrote:
>>> Kinda funny how Apple doesn't have this kind of bullshit problem and
>>> their version of 'nix is working fine for everybody.  Kinda funny how
>>> Red Hat's profits are down by 25% this last quarter and Ubunto continues
>>> to accelerate.
>>
>> This is a non sequitur. Apple doesn't care about having a free software
>> distribution. Sounds like you don't either. Therefore, Fedora is not for
>> you. That's fine -- please go use a distribution or entirely different
>> operating system that better suits your needs.
> 
> More importantly, Apple licenses software and pays the patent holders 
> accordingly and then charges its customers for the software...a point 
> that seems lost on many of you ;)

And unfortunately, even though I suspect that many people would very 
much like a legal distribution based on Linux that could include all the 
parts necessary to be a viable competitor to Microsoft, the GPL will 
always prevent it from happening.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com




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