Re: RH and GNOME
On Tue, Jul 21, 1998 at 09:25:00PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote:
> Enrique Zanardi <ezanardi@ull.es> wrote:
> > > HTML is not GPLed.
> >
> > WTF has the license to do with it? If <insert-name-here> starts adding
> > stupid extensions to the kernel we can ignore them, but if they have 90%
> > of the market share we will soon find people are writing apps that work
> > on their kernel and not in ours.
>
> The GPL means that it can be the same kernel, that's what.
But why would we want to use all that stupid extensions (perhaps not only
stupid, but unstable, degrading performance, causing random data
corruption, blue screens of death or whoknowswhat)? Why would we want to
install enlighment in /opt? Just because it is the "industry standard",
a la Microsoft Word? GPLed code doesn't guarantee good code. If somehow
one of the players becomes the dominant player we may be forced to adopt
their "industry standards" even if they are inferior products. We must
work as hard as we can to offer an interesting option, to give things
that the other distros don't give, to keep being an important player in
this game, just to avoid Linux becoming a de-facto monopoly.
--
Enrique Zanardi ezanardi@ull.es
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