[Fwd: Wikipidia - Goodbye Red Hat and Fedora]

[Les Mikesell]

Rex Dieter wrote:
> Les Mikesell wrote:
> 
>> Arthur Pemberton wrote:
>>>> A "put up or shut up" attitude has only been harmful in several
>>>> occasions before. You cannot win volunteers with remarks like that.
>>>
>>> Well, seems like the community is being solely gobbled up by
>>> individuals who are both negative and non constructive.
>> That shouldn't be surprising for a project that doesn't value backwards
>> compatibility, stability, or interoperability with any third party
>> components.
> 
> Blame too those upstream projects who introduce these changes, fedora is
> just a collection of all those items.  

So you'll ship any sort of breakage with no regard to the interfaces you 
promoted last month?

> Is there similar outrage against them as well?  Where is it?

There are reasons that people run distributions instead of compiling the 
head of every upstream source themselves.  Consider the contrast between 
RHEL's shielding users from incompatible upstream changes for many years 
at a time to what fedora ships.   I realize that it isn't easy or even 
always possible to add new features without breaking old ones or 
interfaces, but that's what people want.  And it is what they are used 
to from commercial OS's.

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com