Good bye

[Les Mikesell]

John Summerfield wrote:
> 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."

But that has nothing to do with my point about enabling the user to 
install additional software which is why I have an operating system in 
the first place.

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com