On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 9:36 PM, Reco <recovery...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 09:30:22AM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 12:58:26PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
>> > True, it's a single point of failure, but it's made by GNU, whose
>> > agenda is less harmful to Linux than the agenda of Redhat.
>>
>> I nearly choked on my coffee reading that. Redhat built their business on
>> Linux; GNU have been hostile towards it for years.
>
> And the most interesting thing is that for many years glibc was
> maintained by Ulrich "Stop Reopening" Drepper who was paid by Red Hat
> for this task :)
> Glibc maintainer style was the main reason of glibc → eglibc transition
> in Debian.

Just for fun, I did a search on "gnu vs. redhat".

One of the more amusing links that popped up:

http://www.informit.com/library/content.aspx?b=red_hat_linux7&seqNum=12

Irony abounds.

-- 
Joel Rees

Be careful where you see conspiracy.
Look first in your own heart,
and ask yourself if you are not your own worst enemy.


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