John, do not be offended, the real answer would be to ask if all their
material was GPL or some other open source and not copyrighted, and you
could also explain to them in loving terms (as if talking to a small and
ignorant child about the dangers of running in traffic) that the
particular distribution would not really make any difference as long as
it ran on a recent (say the last couple of YEARS) kernel and or X
3.something, suggesting that what ever flavor Linux they run thier
servers on would be fine. maybe also suggest that if they do not run
their own servers but are being hosted for the sake of easy setup, you
would be pleased to provide a GPL distro for him to try (at your own
"expense") and give him the URL of mandrake-linux.
Just my 2 cents worth
and how dare anyone say that I "do not have an attitude"... damn it!
John Arkoulis wrote:
>
> A couple of days ago I was surfing on the net and went on a Star Trek site. I
> liked what they had and out of good faith I sent them the message << lets port
> it to Linux>>
> I thought that the Linux community had an attitude but I was wrong.
> This is the answer that I received.
> Now what would you answer to them??/
> I really do not like people that are that sarcastic especially to someone that
> they do not know.
> I would appreciate any ideas!!!
>
> On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, also sprach: > -----
> Original Message ----- > From: Richard Sliwa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: John
> Arkoulis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, June 26, 2000 1:46 PM >
> Subject: Re: Linux >
> >
> > > At 13:31 26/06/00 -0700, you wrote:
> > > >Come on guys. Lets port these great stuff over to Linux.
> > >
> > > To which particular flavour of Linux desktop environment do you want us to
> > > port?
> > >
> > > And just what "stuff" is it you want us to port? The only material on our
> > > site which isn't directly relevant to Linux are the startup screens and
> > > desktop themes which are irrelevant anyway.
> > >
> > > Anyway, why should *we* port it? We're part of the Windows online
> > community
> > > (despite the fact that our server is actually running on Linux - Windoze
> > > just isn't up to it!), why can't the online Linux community do something
> > > about it? After all, linux is meant to be the single largest collaborative
> > > project going, isn't it?
> > >
> > > And isn't Linux all about tinkering away oneself - why would any Linux user want
>to rely on all our pre-compiled suff?
> > > Richard Sliwa
> > > Star Trek in Sound and Vision http://www.STinSV.com
> > > Boldly Going Where No Web Site Has Ever Gone Before
