----- Original Message ----- From: civileme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 5:14 PM Subject: Re: [expert] The little operating system that could
> > Is this LSB compatible, yet? > (when in fact no distro can really claim to be because the official test > software for compatibility isn't even official yet--still beta-- and the > sniping of our "incompatibility" is in the "gray areas" of the > Filesystem Hierarchical Standard where no clear direction is given and > the interpretation of the other distros is probably as equally valid as > ours and all different) > How is that not a valid question? Perhaps the answer is not simple or easy or comfortable, but yours seems adequate. So why is asking this question a problem? Is it wrong to ask questions? How would a legitimate question, if properly answered, "poison" the release? >Mandrake has been fortunate to have some oof the >best engineers in the world, folks who make me look on in awe, folks who >could be making triple what they are almost anywhere else. > >But they came to Mandrake to work on free software. And aren't they? You seem to impy (I may be wrong) that their time is wasted dealing with uncomfortable questions and incorrect and outrageous opinions. Somebody at Mandrake has to deal with that and IMHO the software engineers are probably the worst suited for that purpose as they usually lack the skills and temperment for that kind of work. However, that kind of work seems to come with the territory. Mandrake supplies one of the top Linux distros in the world. That's no accident; it comes from good development. But it seems to me that they are leaving management in the hands of people not well suited for it. That's where the problem lies. Hoyt
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