Re: RH and GNOME
Enrique Zanardi <ezanardi@ull.es> wrote:
> > 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)?
I think you're confusing Linux with Windows. Windows is the one
that's not GPLed.
> Why would we want to install enlighment in /opt?
What does that have to do with anything?
[1] Enlightenment isn't part of any OS,
[2] Enlightenment is PRE-ALPHA software.
For all I care, enlightenment could be installed in /var/tmp/ -- it
doesn't matter because anything compatible with these development
versions of enlightenment are GUARANTEED to break by the time
the final release comes around.
> Just because it is the "industry standard", a la Microsoft Word?
Why am I even bothering to respond to this?
Microsoft Word is not GPLed. Microsoft Word is not a part of Linux,
and Microsoft Word does not get installed in /opt/. Probably the
most significant of those points is that Microsoft Word is not GPLed.
> GPLed code doesn't guarantee good code.
True.
Yet GPLed apps tend to be significantly higher quality than comparable
commercial apps.
This is one of the big value-added features of the free software
community.
> 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.
True, but not particularly relevant for the case of GPLed code (unless,
like KDE, it's GPLed but not really GPLed code).
> 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.
Er... right.
And there's better reasons that that. [Better goals, too.]
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Raul
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