On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 10:53:39AM -0700, Florin Andrei wrote:
That's looking at the empty half of the bottle. :-)
If you look at the other half, it reads like this:
The Fedora Project is sort of a "truly open" Linux distribution, a la
Debian, with little control from commercial entities. This should put a
stop to the "commercially bastardized Linux" criticisms (at least in
theory).
Well, as you say, we already have Debian (and many other "truly open"
community distributions). We also have many "not completely open"
commercial distributions (fill in the names yourself). And we had
a (truly?) open commercial distribution: Red Hat Linux. IMHO this
is what we seem to loose now: a fully open distribution, but still
controlled by a single entity (company). Red Hat Linux played this
role, between the community distributions and the not-completely-open
commercial distributions. So I still think we *do* loose something.
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