On Thursday 30 November 2006 23:40, Gustin Johnson wrote: > Shawn wrote: > > This split is overdue. Though it's been discussed and rejected a few > > times in the past 3 or 4 years. I personally think the tech issues are > > lost in the non-tech chatter that has become clug-talk (through no fault > > of anyone though). > > Clug-tech is a good idea. > > > As for interoperability. I'm having problems seeing the distinction. > > Am I hearing that anything to do with Windows should not be on this > > list? If so what about asking for help with my samba config because a > > windows box can't connect to it (and presumably other Linux boxes). The > > samba configs are rather technical, and FOSS specific. Granted, > > configuring Windows is definitely off topic, but the samba based problem > > introduces a grey area. > > I do not happen to agree with this distinction, but then networking and > therefore interoperability between many different OSs (I interact with > at least 4 OSs on a near daily basis) is central to my computing > paradigm. I will comply with this distinction as best I can, though for > the record I think it is a bad idea. >
I agree. There are times when interoperability is not optional. My network at home is exclusively Linux, with my laptop dual-booting for games and testing that other browser (though Shawn finding ies4linux was very useful!). However I work with people that use Windows every day and if they can't get on one of my Linux-driven services does that make it a non-Linux issue? I don't think so....perhaps it becomes a Windows issue if the problem is on their end, but it can be hard to tell even that sometimes. On the other side of the coin if someone on a Windows-centric group told me to solve my Samba issue by switching to Windows they would get an unfavorable response. What if it's a client on Windows unsuccessfully connecting to my Linux box because his Linux-based router is somehow screwed up? :P food for thought - OSS is about choice, and for Linux to be my choice I need to be able to work with those that haven't seen the light. > > Just trying to make sure I'm understanding the distinction. > > This is good time to have this discussion, before a precedent has a > chance to be set. > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
