Even in the glorious days of their move to glibc. Why would invetsment and an IPO change the basis for their success -- that they have established themselves as the most innovative and complete distro?
Your "heuristic" is really an emotional problem: fear and envy of success.
Much as I enjoyed your note -- I really did, and I agree with what you say -- I still don't understand your argument about Malda and Debian. But it doesn't really matter. I'm out of the linuxerati stream enough not to have realized that RH has become so unhip that it's now fun to equate them to the Horned One. I was therefore trying to dig up 'political' motives.
To think that nowadays people carry out civil disobediance in the name of an OS.
I don't think it's entirely accidental that/. has mounted a steady barrage of anti-RH criticism lately (only tempered by the Icaza piece). I think Malda should investgate his subjective motives here -- perhaps he's pissed that for regulatory reasons RH needs to excise references to itself in its Slashdot links?
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is that sound on the 256AV isn't supported by any Linux sound driver solution.
fact is, micros~1 has had the fastest implementation of java for years, and Sun has been desperately trying to catch up.
Even in the glorious days of their move to glibc. Why would invetsment and an IPO change the basis for their success -- that they have established themselves as the most innovative and complete distro?
Your "heuristic" is really an emotional problem: fear and envy of success.
Much as I enjoyed your note -- I really did, and I agree with what you say -- I still don't understand your argument about Malda and Debian. But it doesn't really matter. I'm out of the linuxerati stream enough not to have realized that RH has become so unhip that it's now fun to equate them to the Horned One. I was therefore trying to dig up 'political' motives.
To think that nowadays people carry out civil disobediance in the name of an OS.
I don't think it's entirely accidental that /. has mounted a steady barrage of anti-RH criticism lately (only tempered by the Icaza piece). I think Malda should investgate his subjective motives here -- perhaps he's pissed that for regulatory reasons RH needs to excise references to itself in its Slashdot links?