Fedora Desktop future- RedHat moves

Da Rock rock_on_the_web at comcen.com.au
Sun Apr 27 11:29:15 UTC 2008


On Sat, 2008-04-26 at 10:35 -0400, max wrote:
> Da Rock wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 09:58 -0700, BRUCE STANLEY wrote:
> >>
> >> Rex Dieter <rdieter at math.unl.edu> wrote:
> >>         Paul Shaffer wrote:
> >>         
> >>         > This is the attitude that will eventually marginalize Fedora
> >>         into a
> >>         > non-issue:
> >>         
> >>         I humbly disagree. There's a right and a wrong way to do
> >>         things, and I'm
> >>         glad fedora chooses to take the higher-ground.
> >>         
> >>         -- Rex
> >>         
> >>          
> >> Taking the higher ground means keeping your feet dry.
> >>
> >> But if you want help/rescue the drowning user
> >>  (e.g. Laptop users, some desktoppers),  you have to be willing to 
> >> get your feet wet!     :-)
> > 
> > Indeed. And even by your count thats a handful versus the world in
> > computing... I'd say thats marginalized.
> > 
> What's with the defeatist attitude?still harboring bitterness against 
> M$? Forget M$!
> 

No, I am by no means a defeatist.

I mean marginalized against every other platform and distro out there-
including unix. Hell, even FreeBSD (another completely free software
organisation) makes it easier to access the software people want.
Getting it to operate correctly is another matter... but at least it is
made available easily to the end user.




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