Re: Fedora - DELL ?

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On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 00:07 -0500, Arthur Pemberton wrote:

> >
> > Users care less about distros that don't work in the real world.
> > Because of the self-flagellating ideological crusade adopted by Fedora,
> > they are now second fiddle to Ubuntu.  ESR has been telling them that
> > for many moons now.
> >
> > The primary function of an operating system is to serve the user; thru
> > greater technical merit, and not to pick a religion for the user.
> > Whenever an operating system devolves from that former purpose, it
> > basically removes itself from the domain of the user.  That's what's
> > happening to Fedora now, because of the Alan Cox's and the Greg KH's and
> > the Andrew Mortons of the world.  The Ubuntu guys realize that
> > programmers have the right to license their code however they please,
> > and that it's not the purpose or stated goal of the OS to dictate code
> > licensing choice.  The purpose of the OS is to run user programs, and
> > not to force use of it's developer's favorite licenses.  Ideology is the
> > _user's_ domain, not the OS's.  That's why Ubuntu will continue to clean
> > Fedora's clock.
> 
> I regret starting this thread now.


This is not about dumping on Fedora.  It runs much deeper than that.  I
run FC6 and for the record, I've never loaded Ubuntu.  In addition,
there are enough nod-and-wink repos to get Fedora functional; with
effort, which I don't mind.  But factually, that does not change what is
happening.

LX


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A Kernel Of Socialism

greatunwashed: module license 'great_unwashed' taints kernel.
ich: no version for "unwashed_register_device" found: kernel tainted.
Symbol usb_register_driver is being used by a non-GPL module,
which will not be allowed in the future
Please see the file Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
in the kernel source tree for more details.
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