Moinak Ghosh's post is an ego support for another post:
> Very very true ... religious arguments within the Linux community is not going to
> help at all.
How not ??
Same argument propounded and put forward by Red Hat Linux when giving a
reason not to join the
Linux World Conference & Expo which is due next month. What are they
shirking away from ??
> Red Hat, the leader in Linux market share, has declined to participate. "We think
>this
> distribution vs.distribution showdown format is counter-productive to the Linux
>community,
> " a spokesperson says. "Instead of clarifying anything, it will only serve to
>confuse."
>
We have had got similar justifications in the past from very senior,
knowledgeable persons
on this list. It seems that the Linux community will get fragmented. Or
am I blinded by FUD ?
> Bruce Perens, an open source software pioneer and president of Linux Capital Group
>in
> Berkeley, Calif., says that not all Linux packages are entirely open source. He'd
>like to
> hear the vendors explain what is and what isn't open source in their distributions.
> He'd also like to hear the vendors comment on how they are giving back to the open
>source
> community. As an example, he points to VA Linux providing Web hosting for open
>source
> projects.
>
Bruce Perens is one of the founders' of Debian GNU/Linux. Someone is
likely to say now,
"Do not listen to him".
> Bill Claybrook, a research director at Aberdeen Group in Boston, says it will be
>interesting
> to hear how the companies plan to encourage independent software vendors to port
>their
> applications to Linux. "How will the Linux distributors work with the independent
>software
> vendors to provide them with a more suitable release cycle?" Claybrook asks. He says
>that
> new releases of Linux are issued much more frequently than new releases of most
>other
> operating systems, making it challenging for third-party developers to keep pace.
>
Quite true. Red Hat Linux 6.0 and in no time we have 6.1. Our own PC
Quest brought out
Red Hat 6.0 and 6.1 within a span of less than 6 months. Do we want
these kind of
release cycles ?? Does this not reek of one upmanship ? For
what....pure commercial
interest and not out of love/respect for the GNU/Linux community. Love
for the crisp
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