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
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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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