Good bye

[John Summerfield]

Les Mikesell wrote:

>>> Much of his problems had to do with 3rd party software like the 
>>> Nvidia drivers, skype, etc.  It's hard to imagine how ubuntu could be 
>>> more hostile to 3rd parties than fedora.
>> ----
>> I'm glad you have such a positive assessment of Fedora.
> 
> Feel free to point out how I'm wrong if you can find any cases where the 
> distro goes out of its way to help enable its users to install/use any 
> 3rd party item.  The best thing I can say is that they try to be 
> internally self-consistent most of the time.  But in my opinion, an 
> operating system should be just be a platform where you install other 
> things.  If it doesn't either provide a stable interface for those 
> things or a mechanism to help deal with its unstable nature, there's not 
> much point to using it.
> 

Many years ago, RH used to ship CDE, maybe around RHL 4.x.

Unfortunately, CDE had a security problem. CDE is closed software. RH 
takes security more seriously than its supplier did. RH could not get a 
fix in a suitable timeframe.

RH immediately withdrew support, suggested people did not use it, and 
offered paying customers a credit against their next purchase.

RH was a new company then; anyone who's still around from then is likely 
senior management now.

Whatever their beliefs then, I'm sure that that experienced moved them a 
a few points towards "open source and only open source."


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Cheers
John

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