> Marco van de Voort wrote: > > Philosophically saying, that would enter the programmer into a purely > > consumer relation with the OS. Which isn't the case in OSS, since there is > > a > > shared responsibility by all users, nobody excluded. > > You hit the point, except that it _is_ becoming the case with Linux > distributed by companies who provide support to their users. ;-) FPC > installer shouldn't make assumptions about the type of user (consumer or > OSS geek), because both exist nowadays.
Incorrect, and I don't see what an OSS geek is supposed to be. I/We don't have a consumer relation with what you call consumers. Those distro's that pocketed the cash have. That is not that I'm against decent release building, but there is a tradeoff here, and one that is aggrevated due to use of several installer and hierarchy conventions. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal