Fedora/RH policies sometimes suck

Lyvim Xaphir knightmerc at yahoo.com
Thu Apr 12 11:15:36 UTC 2007


On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 22:41 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 12:18:30PM +1000, Res wrote:
> > > That's not "stripped", that's "can't legally include".
> > BS, if the code producers have a complete package  and fedora decide they
> > dont want to or cant for their own internal policy reasons include a part
> > of it, thats STRIPPED, it is STRIPPED code that IS in the
> > correct/real/publicly available TRUE source and binaries released by the
> > code producers.
> 
> Again, nothing is stripped gratuitously. If it's not free software, it can't
> be included.
> 
> -- 
> Matthew Miller           mattdm at mattdm.org          <http://mattdm.org/>
> Boston University Linux      ------>              <http://linux.bu.edu/>
> 


Kinda funny how Apple doesn't have this kind of bullshit problem and
their version of 'nix is working fine for everybody.  Kinda funny how
Red Hat's profits are down by 25% this last quarter and Ubunto continues
to accelerate.


LX
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