Fedora/RH policies sometimes suck

Scott van Looy scott at ethosuk.org.uk
Thu Apr 12 12:02:47 UTC 2007


Today Matthew Miller did spake thusly:

> On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 07:15:36AM -0400, Lyvim Xaphir wrote:
>> 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.
>
> This is a non sequitur. Apple doesn't care about having a free software
> distribution. Sounds like you don't either. Therefore, Fedora is not for
> you. That's fine -- please go use a distribution or entirely different
> operating system that better suits your needs.

More importantly, Apple licenses software and pays the patent holders 
accordingly and then charges its customers for the software...a point 
that seems lost on many of you ;)

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