On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 10:53 AM, Lamar Owen lowen@pari.edu wrote:
On Wednesday, January 11, 2012 10:47:44 AM m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
I'll have to disagree, Lamar. There *are* large distros: RH & its derivatives, SuSE, and Debian & its derivatives (i.e., Ubuntu), and though there are kit distros (fedora?), they're more like the Big Three automakers of the US, and I can't think of frequent crash&burn reports.
In terms of commercial distributions, I see more of an analogy to REO, Hupmobile, Duesenburg, and Studebaker than the current large automakers.
I was thinking more of Ford getting people to forget about the Pinto - which I think they have done fairly successfully although it may just have to do with aging memory. Let's see, that was around 1980. Maybe I'll try Fedora again in 30 years.