Well, I really thought this was the start of something good also. 'Til they got to the desktop part.
But seems to me they've made our lives easier. That's just 4 distros I no longer have to consider in my search for the right one. I better get busy learning RedHat! Michael dep <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > begin Kurt Wall's quote: > > | Still optimistic, dep? I, for one, am glad *that's* over. Nothing > | like having my hope clubbed to death like a baby seal to start my > | day off right. I should have known better. Once again, Caldera has > | snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. Fscking amazing. > > still optimistic? but of course! there will still be linux, and there > will still be a community, and all the geniuses who have thusfar > totally screwed up will continue to do so, and linux will in that > sphere achieve all the power and prestige of AIX, and the companies > will draw the wrong conclusions. i *am* red-faced for having given > them too much credit -- they went *out of their way* to say that the > companies are *prohibited* from producing a "unitedlinux" desktop > distribution. as with the release of caldera 3.0, if they would have > just shut the hell up, maybe thrown a bone to the community in the > form of isos, it might have been okay. but, if you remember, when 3.0 > was released they first said something about business only, no isos, > per-seat licensing -- in otherwords, "desktop people: go to hell," > and they ended up retracting or weaseling around much of it, but by > then the damage was done. today, they gratuitously dissed the linux > community, and there lies a world of hurt. but what is so > mindbogglingly stupid about it is *they didn't have to! they gained > nothing by doing it!* and the damage is done. they could send CDs out > by bulk mail, aol-style, and it probably wouldn't fix the stuff they > broke today for no reason at all. > > the whole thing, the conference call, was chillingly reminiscent of > the rollout of OS/2, in which a multitude of things that never > happened were announced. the companies were all lined up to cheerlead > (it should be noted that several mentioned that they were certainly > sticking to their associations with red hat, too), at what amounts to > no cost to them. so yeah, the linux equivalent of the hindenburg was > launched today. oh, the humanity! > > but just because four makers of not-all-that-good distributions > decided to leave the loop for the circle jerk, we needn't despair. > the decks have been cleared. debian will still don its hooded cloaks > and hold its secret blood rituals; slack is actually doing things > that make it bright and modern and very possibly the best desktop > distro; lycoris is showing promise, as are a couple of others; and > there may now be even more reason to build to the skippy standard, > which really *could* turn out being the best desktop distro ever. > > | That's the last time I cross *my* fingers. > > hey. we crossed ours. they raised one of theirs. i'd rather be in our > position than theirs. > -- > dep > > http://www.linuxandmain.com -- outside the box, barely within the > envelope, and no animated paperclip anywhere. > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list - > http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users > Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the > above URL. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
