On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 12:46:06PM +0200, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
[...]
> So, why don't you read the statements
> of long-term Mandrake users and go to the website and read the last 3
> year's news from Mandrake. They show a lot of Mandrake's commitment to
> Open Source. It's just one page.
I'll keep that for a quiet moment, thanks for the pointer.
> Me, I'm a long-term user. I started with version 5.2 (the first) short
> before 5.3 was released. I know some of the leading people in person and
> all I can say is: knowing them assures me that Mandrake will not go down
> the SuSE/Red Hat/Caldera road.
<g> Knowing some of the participants in person almost always changes
the scope - I'm not surprised.
> BTW: Caldera can't be counted in on the
> "non-commercial" companies. A Caldera rep once told me "Caldera does not
> aim at the individual Linux user. We are strictly corporation
> orientated."
And so they did... But let's let *that* topic lie - it's good enough
to let oodles of people fly off their handle...
[...]
> This makes sense. I don't agree but it makes sense as a reasoning.
> All you wrote before was a bit distorted compared to this. Or maybe I'm
> just a simple guy who understands simple reasoning....
Wobo, I'd be the first to admit that I don't always succeed in putting my
reasoning into understandable sentences... ;-)
Cheerio,
Thomas
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