Free Software audit update

Michael J. Knox michael at knox.net.nz
Tue Aug 22 03:39:48 UTC 2006


Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-08-21 at 09:16 +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote:
>> > Most major distros (e.g. SuSE and RedHat) abandoned Lesstif many years
>> > ago, which had caused Lesstif to fall into the "black hole" of "nearly
>> > dead projects".
>>
>> debian doesn't count?
> Not that much, because their "religiousness on OpenSource" makes one
> essential difference to Fedora and is one core reason why people are
> using Fedora. If I was "religious on OpenSource", I was using Debian,
> and not wasting my time on Fedora.

Not that they are "that" religious with regards to OSS... since they
promote the use on non free through their own hosted non-free repos.

way OT anyways....

Michael




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