Re: [SLUG] Red Hat slagging

[Terry Collins <terryc@nospam.woa.com.au>]

Dave Kempe wrote:

> Sort of on that note too, seeing as the community one of the strong points
> about Linux, its important taht we stick together. Having all this division
> seperate us can only weaken us.

No, having discussion enables the community to recognise its weak
points and fix them up. There will also need to be a fair amount of
continuing discussion for the community to decide where it is going.

A reasonable anology for the Linux Community is perhaps that swarm
screen saver, where each of the little bees(?) is a GNU(?)/GPL project
and the kernel is the queen.

The trick is to recognise those who participate in the discussion for
the good of Linux, as opposed to other interests.



> 
> >
> > Red Hats' involvement with Linux has been and will continue to be
> > a positive thing. I am glad Red Hat is a commercial success, this
> > success is a good thing for Linux.
> >
> What's good for Linux is good for all the other distros as well.

Umm, I assume you don't mean this.

Linux is the kernel.
GNU was the original set of apps


Distros are things like RedHat, Debian, Yaddrassil, Slackware,
Mandrake, Caldera, CorelLinux, LinuxOne {:=), etc (far too many to
keep up with), woops TurboLinux,


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