On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 12:46 -0400, Sean wrote: > On Wed, 02 Aug 2006 18:10:04 +0200 > Chris Chabot <chabotc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > An interesting editorial on this topic, that might sum up some of the > > feelings that some people have been feeling: > > > > http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/editorial_13 > > > > Slashdot discussion on this: > > http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/02/0238233 > > Digg discussion: > > http://digg.com/linux_unix/Why_Red_Hat_will_go_bust_because_of_Ubuntu > > > > All of this isn't necessarily to be taken as gospel, however it does > > illustrate well the point some of 'us' have been trying to make .. lets > > not forget about the users! :-) > > Agreed, let us not forget about the open source users. Let's not let the > people who want to use binary-only proprietary extension spoil the > distribution for those that don't. On top of which, the first article > you cite seems to indicate that the niche you're worried about is > already nicely filled by Ubuntu. There doesn't seem to be much > reason for Fedora to become just another Ubuntu. I know I'm not the typical user - but I got involved with fedora and with linux in general b/c of open source. I don't want to work on a distribution that isn't sticking to those ideals. The only two distros I can think of that follow that extremely closely are fedora and debian. ubuntu is definitely not one of them. Thank you for making this point. -sv -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
