--- Adam Williamson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 13:06, David Walser wrote: > > > > Uh, in what way is submitting a new package with > the > > > change in the log, > > > and elaborating on the change when asked about > it, > > > doing anything > > > "behind our backs"? > > > > Well, given it's one of the huge things that RH > got > > criticized for with 8.0, it was obviously going to > be > > a controversial thing, and it probably should have > > been discussed before the fact, rather than, it's > > done, haha now you suckas have to live with it! > > No, this isn't the case at all. The serious
Actually it is. > criticism of Red Hat is for > the extensive hacking they did in KDE for the more > radical aspects of > their "compatibility" - making it use Pango and > things like that. These > are radical internal changes which some people > contend introduce bugs > that will be blamed on the KDE project. I don't Yep, that certainly was a major criticism, the most important one probably. > think anyone had a major > problem with Red Hat simply tweaking the default > settings of each > desktop environment - that's the prerogative of a > distributor of free > software, after all. You didn't follow all of the discussion then :o) Of course, and you're not the only one to point this out, yes, distributors can change default settings however they want. My point is only that they shouldn't make stupid changes. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Y! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your web site http://webhosting.yahoo.com/
