Jeff Spaleta wrote:
http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/05/hats_off_for_fe.html
First comment in the comment section. Since i love flashing my board
creds as much as possible. I want to make sure everyone else is aware
of my attempts at sullying the Fedora Board's reputation.
-jef
GREAT!!!
> But what really upsets me, is the apparent reality that derived
> distributions based on Debian take Debian completely and utterly for
> granted. That has to stop.
Liked this part the most.
Giving back is one of the main principles which drive FOSS.
A distro which is based on another one SHOULD give the work it does back
to the one it is based on.
A distro which uses a FOSS program SHOULD give back the patches it
creates to upstream.
If a distro manages to translate KDE it SHOULD commit the translations
upstream.
Very close relationships with upstream is one of the main things which
makes me use Fedora (well at thirst it was bleeding edge software, but
it's just a result of following upstream closely).
And that's the main problem I have with FreeBSD. I don't like the
concept of a "base" packages, which have been forked years ago.
And also I don't like the idea of writing "our own grep", "our own
find", "our own date", ...
That's the way I thought when I was 12. I did't like using "other's"
software: I wanted to have "my own".
That's the way Microsoft did with OOXML. They did't want to use
"other's" standards, they wanted to have their own "standard".
And even more... They didn't want to use "other's" standard for storing
dates, they wanted to have their own "standard".
PS: The last part seems to be off-topic :)
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