[huskerlug] Re: Meeting
- From: "Gary Kearney" <gkearney@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "HLUG Husker Linux Users Group" <huskerlug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2003 13:28:29 -0600
Maybe I don't understand the Fedora project, but it sounds as if it is supp=
osed to be bleeding edge stuff not stable. I'm interested in stable. I real=
ize that RH has to make money, and I'm willing to pay when I see that their=
service is what I want. That's what I was intending to do. I think they co=
uld offer some support for the desktop without destroying their other busin=
ess. I just think that they should think more about where they came from or=
they will become marginalized just as other people who focused completely =
on the business environment have been. Look at OS2.
Saying RH is like Micro$oft is a gross overstatement of course, but I'm not=
at all happy with the way things are going. I might as well stay with M$ i=
f I can't have a stable OS. Better the devil you know than the one you don'=
t. I really want Linux to survive as an alternative on the desktop for user=
s like me who are not interested in spending years learning to tweak the OS=
, so it does what we want. --gk
> Quoting Gary Kearney <gkearney@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> > It
> > so=3D
> > unds to me as if they are just trying to be another MS. If they don't
> > want =3D
> > to support the desktop, why don't they just put the damn thing back into
> > th=3D
> > e public domain and let users pick up the thread or something.
>
> They did release all their stuff to the OS comunity. It was mentioned in=
my
> last post. It's called "The Fedora Project".
>
> I don't think RH is Microsoft-like @ all. The beauty of OS is choice, ri=
ght?
> RH has the choice to decide to make money and stop supporting their unpay=
ing
> customers. Allthough it would be nice to think that a company can life f=
rom
> nothing and give out a great product, that is just not the case. In any =
case,
> their new licensing system still lets you get their advanced server stuff=
for
> free. All the SRPMS are on the net. And if you purchase their "desktop
> version" of Advanced Server then you can install it on all the machines o=
u want.
>
> I just don't see the MS comparison...
>
>
> -Cesar Delgado
> ---------------------------------------------
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> http://rcf.unl.edu
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