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Interview with Taylor & Pennington from Red Hat

Posted by chrisd on from the free-software-means-freely-customized-too dept.

RH-Gimp writes "OSNews has put together a long and informative interview with Havoc Pennington and Owen Taylor from Red Hat. They discuss about the KDE issues, the UI on Red Hat 8.0, the future of the Linux desktop and XFree and other interesting stuff."

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  1. Re:Many unanswered questions remain by mao+che+minh · · Score: 3, Flamebait
    The movement is about freedom. But that in no way guarantees that any company forged by that same movement, in a capatilist setting, will even vaguely treasure it's original values once money comes into play.

    Besides, this site is full of people that busted a gut at the expense of some poor Korean guy that "played games to death". Why would these same people care about whether or not the bitmap of a flag for some little island nation off of the coast of China can be found in recent Redhat distributions?

  2. Re:Tayler brought up a good point by Karma+Sucks · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    That's bullshit when Red Hat rewrote the whole GNOME desktop instead of joining KDE. They had to do it worse too, with the whole thing based on a C and CORBA mess.

    So GNOME steals other programs and is poorly integrated. That's a good thing?

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  3. Re:Many unanswered questions remain by Planesdragon · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    How about right on their MISSION STATEMENT

    Did you even read that page?

    "The impact of free software (also known as open source software)"

    They mean OSS, not necessarilly "free as in freedom."

    "To underscore our commitment to this phenomenon, Red Hat is pleased to provide sources.redhat.com, a site aimed at providing first-rate hosting of open source projects for software developers"

    The page you linked to isn't Red Hat's coproate page; it's a "community developer" page that they probably write up as a PR move, the same way MS writes up advertising.

    The one where they not only reference "Free Software" MULTIPLE TIMES but include 3 links to the FSF in the space of about 2 paragraphs?

    "Free Software" (capitalized) is used twice, "free software" (not capitalized) is used twice. "Open Source" is used four times, once capitalized and thrice not so.

    Nothing on the text in that page denotes a belief in the "software freedoms" put forth by the FSF. Sharing of source code is a good thing that leads to a better infrastruture, but the moral argument isn't even mentioned. I suspect that the "Open Source" / "Free Software" equality was on purpose.

    Lastly, though it's almost grapsing at straws, the three links to GNU on that page are the kind of links that might be sent to a standards body. RH is looking for PR, not furtherance of Stallman's FSF agenda.

    Feel like a fool? You should. On the plus side, you could probably get a job as a Slashdot editor considering the skill you just showed in spouting off without doing any basic double checking to make sure you're right before you post

    Why, thank you. I'm building an excellent anecdotal record of FSF advocates who are uncritical zealots who attack anyone who disagreess with them! Way to go!

  4. Re:Many unanswered questions remain by pivo · · Score: 1, Flamebait


    Why, thank you. I'm building an excellent anecdotal record of FSF advocates who are uncritical zealots who attack anyone who disagreess with them! Way to go!

    YES, I'm a Christian. Got a problem with that?

    Ha! Another kind of absurd zealot just sprang to mind.