On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 10:53 AM, Lamar Owen <lo...@pari.edu> wrote:
> On Wednesday, January 11, 2012 10:47:44 AM m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
>> I'll have to disagree, Lamar. There *are* large distros: RH & its
>> derivatives, SuSE, and Debian & its derivatives (i.e., Ubuntu), and though
>> there are kit distros (fedora?), they're more like the Big Three
>> automakers of the US, and I can't think of frequent crash&burn reports.
>
> In terms of commercial distributions, I see more of an analogy to REO,
> Hupmobile, Duesenburg, and Studebaker than the current large automakers.
>
I was thinking more of Ford getting people to forget about the Pinto -
which I think they have done fairly successfully although it may just
have to do with aging memory. Let's see, that was around 1980.
Maybe I'll try Fedora again in 30 years.
--
Les Mikesell
lesmikes...@gmail.com
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