On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 16:32:04 -0300 "Avi Alkalay" <avi@xxxxxxx> wrote: > To help Eric fine tune his accuracy, I have to say that I work in a > global well known IT company, on Linux solutions sales. We fight > everyday for Linux not to die in the commercial world, because of this > annoying "missing packages". On the commercial desktop space this is > specially annoying. For sure, but Linux is not defined by Fedora. And Fedora is not tasked with the goal of the commercial desktop space. Red Hat has a product designed for the commercial desktop space for instance, as do several other major vendors. > This is so ridiculous that you still can find Linux sales people > making Linux presentations on Linux events using MS PowerPoint. Just lol, sad. > because to use Linux isn't that straight forward as Andy may think. Can't speak for Andy, but i haven't heard anyone say that this is all straight forward in the larger sense of Linux as a whole. > I believe that too much religion in our OSS world doesn't help much. > Exactly as real religions, it makes its followers a bit blind to see > whats really happening out there. Most people in this debate on the FOSS side have taken great pains to stear clear of the usual religious arguments. For instance, nobody is arguing that everyone should use FOSS come hell or highwater. Nor has anyone tried to say that nobody should use the proprietary repositories on top of Fedora Core. Just that as well as respecting the needs of those users, we should ALSO respect the needs of the FOSS users. > So I think Eric is pretty accurate in its statement. The fundamental flaw in Eric's arguments come from equating Fedora with all of the Linux landscape and then following that up with the notion that therefore Fedora must do whatever is necessary to solve the problems he sees with Linux overall. Sean -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
