Vincent Meyer, MD wrote on Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 09:10:46PM -0600 :

> <rant - but nothing personal>
> How about and making the main distro more completely USEFUL.  Lets face it
> Most of the folks I talk to about Linux - their eyes kinda glaze over when the
> subject of GPL and Open Source come up.  What they want is a system 
> that they can USE, not idiological purity.  They simply want to be able 
> to use their computers.

I'm not saying that you're wrong, and I'm not saying that I disagree
with you.  But I will say that M$ has been slammed by the *nix crowd for
years because their philosophy was "just give them something they can
use".  I don't want to see us go down the same path.

Blue skies...           Todd
-- 
               Todd Lyons -- MandrakeSoft, Inc.
                 http://www.mandrakesoft.com/
UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because 
  that would also stop you from doing clever things. -- Doug Gwyn

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