On Mon, 2004-07-12 at 22:32, Michael Havens wrote:
> On Monday 12 July 2004 22:19, Michael Havens wrote:
> > On Monday 12 July 2004 20:23, Bart Garst wrote:
> > > And what, in your vast experience with linux, do you base that opinion
> > > on?
>
> Whose feathers are ruffled? Boy, you guys are sure passionate about your
> favorite distro! But that is beside the point; look beyond the insensitive
> comment and look at the rest of the letter:
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It's entirely naive to think you can hurl a bomb and not expect people
to notice the bang. You can be assured that upon reading that, anything
else was bound to be lost - even with people that don't use Red Hat.
I have little inclination to get into a distro discussion with someone
with marginal understanding of the various distro's, only a bad
experience when he had even less understanding than he does now.
Obviously Red Hat has chosen an interesting path - a stable commercial
product and a bleeding edge community based product and the great thing
about Linux is that if a particular distro doesn't suit your needs,
there are others to choose from. Disparaging this or that distro is a
fools game.
I am grateful that Debian exists. It is Linux in its most pure form -
free from any corporate domination.
I am grateful for Red Hat's interest in pushing the envelope in
businesses and their success.
I am grateful for Novell's commitment to Linux and think that they will
likewise push things along.
I am struggling to figure out where the Mac OS X fits in with all of
this but even if I don't get it, some people do and that's ok too.
I cannot understand the purpose of characterizing Microsoft as the
darkest recess of the dark - they obviously dominate the industry and
provide at least some of the standard of software/network standards that
must be considered. There's little purpose too rehashing their monopoly,
their predatory practices, etc. since this message base is about Linux.
Now, if you had a point somewhere, it's long since been lost in your
insensitive comment.
Craig
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