On 21 May 2005 19:47:08 -0500, Bryan J. Smith b.j.smith@ieee.org wrote:
But what I can't stand is people like yourself holding different companies to different standards.
Where have I done that? I don't know that I have held any company to a standard.
Trust nothing but actual community donations - because everything else can change tomorrow.
You've provided plenty of one-liners in this discussion.
I don't take the time to explain things for my health. In fact, most people complain about my verbosity. And this "summary" you provided is wholly inaccurate and not even relevant.
SCO v. IBM resulted because of two companies - or bigger than the other. Sun has been repeatedly scrutinized for things that IBM does and few (outside of Linus and other developers) seem to question.
The things I;ve heard Sun scrutinized for are their frequent (to their own detriment) changes of direction and their clinging to proprietary hardware in this age of interchangable parts.
All of this has little to do with CentOS, and fortunately CentOS isn't into the religion/blame game.
So let us make it about GPL and GPL compatible software, and not consider the private lawsuits, or the non-GPL compatible (let alone proprietary) R&D. Let's just keep focused on the community, and not make the community a place where people trash companies off-the-cuff.
We agree on one thing. I'm not interested in trashing companies whether off-the-cuff or carefully crafted in lengthy tirades. You, OTOH, have seen fit to trash most of the companies you have discussed. I have no dog in this fight. I have no one superior company or distro in mind. CentOS and the RedHat base fits pretty well, but I haven't chosen to use CentOS because of any religious fervor about the GPL. I use it because it's free and it's simple and it works. If the same ease of use and community support were to be provided for a Novell-based distro AND it were as easy to use AND I could find other compatible repositories, I might consider it.
All of this started with a simple question about CentOS and on another thread about the best repositories to use for CentOS. We've come rather far afield.
I will yield to your fantastically superior intellect and retire now.