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Re: My distro is better ( was RE: need 4 RH-6.2)



moshez@math.huji.ac.il (Moshe Zadka) wrote:
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> On Thu, 1 Jun 2000, Chen Shapira wrote:
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> > Ouch.
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> > The fact that Debian Gnu/Linux is the only free speach distribution doesn't
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> > make RedHat and Mandrake illegal software trafficers. Not any more than Sun
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> > is.
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> Some of us treat propriety software as uniform badness. This isn't
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> strictly true (notice me disagreeing with RMS): propriety software which
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> makes it intentionally hard to write free alternatives/complementary
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> software is more evil. But, I must say I think that all those you mention,
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> being involved in non-free software trafficking, are an evil. It just so
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> happens Red Hat and Mandrake do enough good things (e.g., funding free
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> software) and Sun is doing not so bad things (sticking to standards so you
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> can interface them with free alternatives), that they are better then MS.

I have to rant. First, MS does good things too. look at 
http://research.microsoft.com
Second: Sun is evil and competent. The problem is that Sun is too 
competent to be
treated as bad thing, and too brain-damaged to be treated as good thing.
Third - the problem with Mandrake is that they suck. The problem with RH 
is somewhat
different - RH are half-ignorant. Instead of taking existing market 
models, they went on and
invented their own. Had they use Debian-like infrastructure, they would 
be damn good.
However, their infrastructure is not suitable for high quality software 
production. That is bad.

ranting-and-being-a-pain-in-the-ass-just-like-moshez-is-ly yours,
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> --   
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> Omer Mussaev    051-308-214   mailto:omerm@mercury.co.il
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> systems programmer, Mercury Interactive/RND/Conduct/core
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