On Monday 10 December 2001 6:04 pm, George Mitchell wrote: What a beatiful picture you paints, thanks for showing it.
regards guran > > I for one am pleased to see these new distro startups appearing. The > fact is, the Windows market is huge, and contrary to what some believe, > there is room for a lot of players in that market. So they will pick up > users whose needs they are targeting and if they pick up enough, they > will be around for awhile. The genius of free software is that even if > they are not successful, there really good ideas and code will be rolled > back into the free software codebase and other distros, including > Mandrake will be free to pick up and assimilate them. There are a lot > of critics out there who spout the FUD that there are 'too many' > different distros and too much 'duplicated' effort, etc. But free > software thrives on diversity. I am glad to see anybody with an idea or > concept join the party. Its their concept and their sweat. In the end > the whole community (including Mandrake) benefits. While all distros > need marketshare to survive, the idea that survival requires cutting off > someone else's air supply is a long way off, and hopefully will never come. -- Mandrake Linux 8.2 Cooker kernel-2.4.16.6mdk-1-1mdk version:2001:12:08:18:54
