Hi Linuxers,
It seems that my mail to BT and subsequent forwarding to
list has generated quite a few responses. Here are some
clarifications.
Satya wrote in one of the mail:
>
> If you haven't sent this already, stop now. Let's get all the responses
> in.
It seems that there was no further responses other than
Satya and Sagar so I waited sometime after preparing my
draft and ultimately sending it to BT.
> If you have...
> Why didn't you ask us first, before quoting??
I am extremely sorry that I didn't ask.
> I don't mind that you quoted me, but you really should have asked first.
> We could have put things in a better+different way. Sagar,
In any case I have sent the mail to BT. This can not be
undone. But you can take my mail and send further response
to BT while freely quoting me without my perm. So now ball
is in ur court. Anyway your point well taken.
> IIRC it's now Dr. Linus Torvalds. That o either has a slash through it,
> or two dots over it.
err.. It seems that I must have missed the story in
LinuxToday about awarding Doctorate to (Now Dr.) Mr.
Torvalds.(And how do I make a slash throu' the o or two dot
over it?)
> Not strictly accurate. No need to mention FSF as primary, I'd suggest
> "... is developed by the likes of Red Hat and the FSF, along with a lot of
> contribution by [free-lancers et al]..."
What I meant is not the development of distros but the
bundled utils as such while reffering to FSF and others,
though RedHat, SuSE and others do contribute to code base,
largest code base is still derived from other sources as
mentioned by me.
> One might consider doing a press release over this Aryabhatt incident. I
> can see it now: "ILUG-Bombay up in arms!", "Linux Users a
Good idea. Why not start creating such a press release right
now. For that matter I will prepare a draft and post it here
for a comment "BEFORE" posting to BT or other publications.
> ...this can be considered libelous (again, IANAL). RH is american. We know
> how sue-happy the americans are.
"G.Sagar" wrote in some other mail:
>
> well ..first, i DO NOT look down upon other companies' o/s's or
> professionals, second: i never said that or implied !!
Even though I was reffering to Sagar's quote (about donning
badges of certification for other OSs, which are not
relevant in any which way while promoting Linux or other
Open Source OSs), its still true and I do stand by my
statement about the quality of pros churned out, dime a
dozen, by these companies, so that they can claim that their
OSs are supported by so many, so called qualified pros. You
would not believe how many support calls I receive for other
OSs by those certified pros in solving their day to day
problems even though I do not have any of those
certificates.
> thats again a technically correct and well meaning statement, but could
> mislead. Linux (kernel) is free. But when you say os, its automatically
> assumed that its kernel+goodies . Tho most goodies are free (if you have the
> bandwidth), it makes more sense to buy a distro. (YMMV).
How many OSs comes bundled with whole lot of apps. and utils
apart from browsers? The point I was making is that most of
the things in Linux and Open Source community is free and
the cost associated with any distro has nothing to do with
OS itself but for the media, manuals, support and likes.
> Hell hath no wrath like a penguin scorned !
> and they (aryabhat blokes) actually refer to tux as peggy ......well ..what
> did u expect me to feel about the gender change ?? i mean ..anger was one
> of the multiple emotions i was going thru !!
>
> Cheerio,
> Sagar.
Your e-motions(!) are well founded and I have gone through
similar emotions - so a prompt mail to BT.
--
With regards.
Dinesh Shah :-)
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