-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 thus Les Mikesell spake: > On 1/5/2011 9:34 AM, Timo Schoeler wrote: >> thus Les Mikesell spake: >>> On 1/5/2011 6:45 AM, Karanbir Singh wrote: >>>> But lets do the right >>>> thing rather than just doing something. Going by the popularist current >>>> mood of people on this list, I think people just want early access to a >>>> codebase they can start using for their own use... >>> I thought that was the very definition of an open process... >> What came to my mind on my way home from the office: Maybe Karanbir has >> a different definition of 'community' (wasn't that what the 'C' in >> 'CentOS' was for?) in mind...? > > I do understand the conflict, just pointing out the other side. The > goal for Centos isn't so much to build a 'better' distro by accumulating > fixes that make it better for particular purposes as it is to build as > nearly exact a copy of RHEL as legally permitted. Sure, this is what I understand. However, does this exclude people willing to help (read: raising the manpower of the project rebuilding RHEL)? If so, yes, I misunderstood. > But community > involvement happens because people need to fix something for their own use. So, the mirrors exist because nobody fixes things? ;) Timo -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with CentOS - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iD8DBQFNJJZGO/2mgkVVV7kRAoVpAKClHkLQcjsan2FLnKVXqZ1ZNO7/4ACfY7ad 4C/Nr0uQCCFGDhT/qBX2GOw= =2wgf -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----