On Thursday 30 May 2002 10:32 pm, Franki did speak unto the huddled masses, saying:
> If it goes ahead as planned, it could hurt mandrake long term... (if they > don't join) on the other hand it is basically 1 distro with merit, 1 new comer without, and 2 that died and started stinking some time back. also the way they are doing it seems anti GPL in someways. unless it somehow catches on with companies who buy linux it will just fade away. also they seem to be worried about servers mostly. unless redhat joins (don't hold your breath, but they could) they have somewhere between little and no chance this will take hold. > simple reason is that if all those companies are promoting the use of > unitedlinux then not many of them will advocate the use of a non > unitedlinux based distro.. will they? i wonder. all those companies support both linux _and_ MS. > Then again, Mandrake is already lsb,, or close isn't it? so they dont > have a huge amount of work to do to match it anyway.. if i recall mandrake is LSB but i question 3 of the 4 distro in UL. > so really, they could just wait till the disto appears and change to > support total compatability with it.. and advertise as such.. without > "rubbing heads" with anyone.. likely the best plan. -- We have forgotten who we are. We have alienated ourselves from the unfolding of the cosmos, become estranged from the movements of the Earth, turned our backs on the cycles of life. -UN Environmental Sabbath Program shane Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 Mandrake Users Club Member http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/club/ Registered linux user #101606 @ http://counter.li.org/
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