On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 12:46 -0400, Sean wrote:
On Wed, 02 Aug 2006 18:10:04 +0200
Chris Chabot <chabotc@xs4all.nl> wrote:
An interesting editorial on this topic, that might sum up some of the
feelings that some people have been feeling:
http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/editorial_13
Slashdot discussion on this:
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/02/0238233
Digg discussion:
http://digg.com/linux_unix/Why_Red_Hat_will_go_bust_because_of_Ubuntu
All of this isn't necessarily to be taken as gospel, however it does
illustrate well the point some of 'us' have been trying to make .. lets
not forget about the users! :-)
Agreed, let us not forget about the open source users. Let's not let the
people who want to use binary-only proprietary extension spoil the
distribution for those that don't. On top of which, the first article
you cite seems to indicate that the niche you're worried about is
already nicely filled by Ubuntu. There doesn't seem to be much
reason for Fedora to become just another Ubuntu.
I know I'm not the typical user - but I got involved with fedora and
with linux in general b/c of open source.
I don't want to work on a distribution that isn't sticking to those
ideals.
The only two distros I can think of that follow that extremely closely
are fedora and debian.
ubuntu is definitely not one of them.
Thank you for making this point.
-sv