On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 03:17:41PM -0500, Hoyt wrote: > I suppose Mandrake just might impact program development efforts. It > continues to build market share and attract interest so it follows that its > decisions could affect development.
market share != authors caring what you think. I'm sure you can find lots of projects that don't care what any of the distributions think or for that matter if they include their software. You're presuming way too much. Furthermore, if the author disagreed with that change so much as to write the FAQ the way he did then it's unlikely he'll change it for you, Mandrake, RedHat or anyone else no matter what market share they have. Case in point Microsoft has a lot of market share. Somehow I'd suspect the people who wrote that FAQ wouldn't listen to them either. > None of which I care for after trying them. Linux shouldn't be about being > forced to use what you don't want. Nobody is forcing you to use anything. You're chosing to use KMail and bitching because you don't like the way it is. Don't confuse the two. > And I can see the point, but that still doesn't excuse the offensive nature > of the FAQ. Perhaps the FAQ author should put more effort into education if > he's so convinced he's right. Complain to that party. Though it's unlikely to yield any results. None of us here wrote the FAQ. You do realize you are making a big deal out of 4 characters? That are very useful to the rest of us... -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy? - Ghandi
