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Re: debian vs ubuntu and knoppix



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| On (11/10/05 21:02), Alvin Oga wrote:
| 
| Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 21:02:56 -0700 (PDT)
| From: Alvin Oga <aoga@mail.Linux-Consulting.com>
| To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
| Subject: Re: debian vs ubuntu and knoppix
| 
| 
| hi ya steve
| 
| On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, Nate Duehr wrote:
| 
| > Steve Lamb wrote:
| > > Alvin Oga wrote:
| > > 
| > >>	- debian ... free ... 
| > >>	- ubuntu ... commercialized version of debian's "hard work"
| > >>		which to me is wrong to do.. but oh well..
| > > 
| > >     Uhhh, Alvin, you've been spreading a lot of disinformation on this list
| > > lately.  I mean a LOT of disinformation.  This is a prime example.  From
| > > Ubuntu's front page, emphasis mine:
| 
| just because you disagree doesn't mean you are right and i am wrong
| so who is jumping on whose ass ??? .. have fun disagree-ing and flaming ..
| 
| - and ubuntu does and always have promoted themself as commercial ...
|   commercial support as their primary business
| 

You do realize the project is funded by a multi-millionare right? It is not
a commercial entity.

| - sure they have free versions, but they also have not free versions
| 
| even suse and redhat has free versions of almost the identical ocde
| as what they're selling for $x,000 .. but, that doesn't make them 
| opensource, free, .. etc .. whatever you wanna call it
| 	- or you want to argue what is opensource too :-)
| 
| 	- it's called "free r/d and free qa dept"
| 
| > Ahh... people can go read it for themselves.  But Alvin's not wrong. 
| > He's also not 100% right -- as is typically with these things, the issue 
| > is more complex than one sentence can adequately display.  He just has a 
| > slightly different viewpoint than yours.
| 
| bingo ... one person will take one view ..and others will take a different
| view, given that unbuntu has more than one core business idea/entity
| 
| > http://www.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/licensing/document_view
| > 
| > Some people find the Ubuntu spin-off inappropriate
| 
| yup... but there will always be different ways and different reasons
| for spinoffs ... some good .. some not so good ...
| 
|  (why didn't they just 
| > donate to Debian and try to get a commitment on release cycles?)
| 
| that'd be too easy ... and probably because they can't call it "their own
| widget"
| 
| > Me?  I just kick back and enjoy the flamefests and trolling... 
| 
| yeah.. that's always fun to see who jumps on who .. and why ...
| 
| > if 
| > there's one thing that never changes about the Net and Free Software, 
| > it's that.
| 
| hasn't changed in 30 yrs ...
| 
| c ya
| alvin
| 
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