Re: Conflict of interest in Debian
On Wed, 15 Oct 2014 08:11:10 +0100
Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 12:51:07AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
> > Check out what single company has 30% of the gatekeepers. Surprise,
> > surprise.
>
> Damned for their success. We want Linux to be successful, but woe
> betide any company that actually gets us there...
Hi Jonathan,
Parse the preceding sentence. We want *Linux* to be successful, but woe
betied any *company* ...
I want *Linux* to succeed, and it would be nice for that success to
float the boats of the companies making Linux succeed, but not the
companies trying to completely change the Linux that attracted most of
us to it.
We've actually been in this place before. Wonderful Linux company
Caldera became SCO (oversimplification, but you know what I mean).
Wonderful Linux company Corel changed their CEO, and promptly accepted
money from Microsoft and dropped all their Windows software.
No doubt, mid 1990's to mid 2000's, Red Hat got us there, and I thanked
and celebrated them. What Red Hat is doing now is anti-Linux, as
demonstrated by timestamps 1:35 and 2:20 in the following:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdRmnSHHVw4
SteveT
Steve Litt * http://www.troubleshooters.com/
Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance
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