On Tuesday 18 November 2003 08:19 pm, bob wrote:
> I agree completely, that's been my point exactly, whether fully
> understood or not in my recent posts. I've tracked and used this
> project since 1999 when I presented it to the UN in Geneva for
> consideration for their use in missions around the globe along with
> Wordperfect Office and Mandrake. (seemed to be the best choice at the
> time) It has been a redhat centric project, and even a year and a half
> ago when I asked in this forum, I was told that the best bet was to go
> with redhat as it was most compatible with this project, that debian was
> not that well supported. I am very tired of hearing from my vendors
> support that they will only support redhat 7.3, that is of course not
> the only version of Linux out there, yet none of them will not talk to
> you if you use another, period, end of call. I've never had a question
> or a grip about LTSP, it's worked flawlessly for me on numerous
> installs, both commercial and for non-profits that I've installed it on.
> I've really no reason to complain since I don't in fact contribute to
> this project except for spreading the word, until now. I've questioned
> redhat before in this forum only to be told by JAM himself that "Buddy,
> you need to chill out". But I think my questions are valid. Redhat has
> drawn a line in the sand, not us open source advocates. Why should any
> open source project, LTSP, K-12 Linux, or any others, continue to do
> work for the open source community only to have it put into an
> expensive, non-open source, commercial product while leaving the Debian,
> Slackware, Gentoo, and FreeBSD distro's as second rate citizens? I
> would think any open source advocate would get in line behind these
> disto's. And why, when someone in the forum questions redhat, are they
> made to feel as if they have done something wrong? Has redhat become
> some sacred cow no one dare offend?
yes this is so true. I've been warning about this for years also because i saw
this starting to happen around redhat 7.0. I wish more would have listened
but my words did not sound as god as yours so I'll just say I agree with this
100%. This is also why I've been working with mandrake since about that time.
It's been a rough ride with them also but they always did and still do
believe and back to gpl. Something I dont get from redhat.
>
> I'm sure I'll be told to "chill out" but I think these points do need to
> be addressed, publicly, in the open, in the interests of the projects
> users. I trusted this forum for guidence only to be burned by redhat,
> what distro would be best?
Thats really objective of course I still like and use mandrake but I'm sure
others still have other things they prefer.
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