[Fwd: Wikipidia - Goodbye Red Hat and Fedora]

[Les Mikesell]

David Woodhouse 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?
> 
> Of course not. We take care to ensure that when interfaces change, every
> Fedora package is updated to cope.

Leaving everything all 3rd party work that tries to cooperate and a 
user's own previous work useless.  If a commercial system did that, 
they'd be out of business in a heartbeat.  A free distribution doesn't 
have the same reasons to care about cooperation, but from the user's 
perspective its all the same - if you can't count on interfaces being 
maintained, a platform simply isn't worth the effort.

Whatever happened to the concept of an LSB definition that was complete 
enough to permit apps to run unchanged across distributions?  We need 
something like that spanning at least 3 concurrent versions of fedora.

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com