On 21 May 2005 19:47:08 -0500, Bryan J. Smith <b.j.smith at 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. -- Collins Head teachers of the world unite: you have nothing to lose but the Start button.