On Fri, 2009-05-22 at 16:34 -0400, David wrote: > On 5/22/2009 3:05 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > > On Fri, 2009-05-22 at 14:05 -0400, David wrote: > > > >> Just keep repeating to yourself, "Linux is an OS... Linux is not a > >> cause... Linux is an OS... Linux is not a cause..." > >> > >> :-) > > > > Linux isn't an OS, it's a kernel. Fedora is an OS (and a project which > > creates an OS), and Fedora certainly has a cause element to it. Note > > that the first of Fedora's four pillars is Freedom. :) The Fedora > > project is not a project to create the best-working operating system at > > a given moment in time with no regard to the freedom of the code it > > contains, so in this respect, your position does not match that of the > > Fedora project in general. > > > Just how often have you heard someone answer, when asked, 'what OS do > you use?' Something other than 'Linux'? Seldom is the name of the > distribution used. > > And that was not my point anyway. One person here needs a working Flash > for his work so he uses Flash from Adobe. And another person was calling > him, sort of, a 'traitor to the free software cause' because he was not > using the somewhat broken gnash. He did not call it by name. I can think > of several places the gnash does not work. > > This is all baloney. Use the tool that will do what you need to do. A > computer is a machine, a toll. Not an altar. Bread on the table beats > hungry every time. IMO. > -- > > > David > - Martin Luther King called it majoring in the minors. I thought this was about dealing with the cure and not with the problem. Lawrence E. Graves <lgraves@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
