[wplug] re; RedHat comments

[Henry Umansky]

Who needs distros, go to http://linuxfromscratch.org

-Henry

--On Wednesday, February 05, 2003 8:42 AM -0500 Sean Parsons 
<sean.parsons at verizon.net> wrote:r

> Ed,
>
> I have had a growing dissatisfaction with redhat, especially 8.0. A lot
> of their instability comes from running a "closed" open source shop. By
> that I mean they work on programs in house and don't give their source
> back to the various community projects till they are done. A good
> example of this is XFree86. The version they were using was still in
> beta when they were testing it for psyche. instead of working with the
> fellows over at XFree86.org they made their own patches, and by the time
> RH finally released their changes XFree86 had already solved RH's issues
> in a different way. So instead of having all of the open source
> community available to work out any bugs in X for RH, they only had
> their own beta testers.
>
> Their changes to KDE created a complete abortion to what is ordinarily
> an exceptional GUI. Many people like Shawn Gordon (CEO of the Kompany)
> and Mosfet (creator of KDE's kicker, mosfet's liquid, Pixie Plus, ect.)
> have very publicly complained about how much harder it is to make a KDE
> app for RH 8.0. (Here are lniks to statements from each Shawn Gordon --
> http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/01/15/1042520666517.html and
> Mosfet -- http://mosfet.org/noredhat.html )
>
> That is just my 2 cents.
>
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Henry Umansky
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