Re: I *love* goodbye-microsoft.com
On Saturday 24 February 2007 23:44, paddy@panici.net wrote:
> social contract, and fedora (and I came to debian before fedora
> and haven't paid that much attention to fedora) as hobbled by it's
> client status to redhat, which is a shame because I had hoped when
> fedora came about it might have the independence to truly rival debian,
> and redhat have some truly excellent people.
Fedora has recently become more free. Fedora Extras (which accepts packages
from non-Red Hat employees) is becoming more integrated into the main Fedora
system.
> The *users* of windows and the *users* of macosx are not the enemy
> either. Making it easier for users to see the full system is certainly
> putting the best foot forward, and I admire the work being done.
I agree. However MS is the enemy and the goodbye-microsoft.com site is an
attack on them.
> So, why shouldn't the users of Fedora, or even say Ubuntu, be invited
> to upgrade to Debian ?!
Sure they should be made welcome. But they can be made welcome in a
non-hostile way.
Why not register change-linux.com and have it document how to convert between
all the different distributions? If someone finds that Debian doesn't suit
them then I welcome them to change to Fedora - they may change back later.
Changing to Windows is however something we want to avoid.
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