Oi! WTF is wrong with you guys!? People from distros which uses dpkg fighting each other!? WTF!?
@simpleLinux I do somehow agree with your points too, but the way you express it, a little bit too harsh. You are consider as an old timers in the OSS community too, so you should know that sometimes when we talked to harsh, might spark a distro war. Especially when you are representing a distro project. So I think it is best we try our best to educate the newcomers and guide them for the benefit of the OSS community. We don't want those M$ fanboys to looks down at us for fighting each others, don't we? :) But anyway, the points you have voices, I do agree with them. :) @Dev No offense, but they way you walk into this discussion is a little bit rude. What I mean is, you should have talk in a proper way instead for straight shooting to simpleLinux and also the rest of the people in this thread who are asking question instead of giving opinion. Not everyone is shooting at My1OS in this thread at the moment. By the way, since My1OS is still fully dependent on Ubuntu's repo, I think you guys should make it available for the public to download the ISO, and sell the support service separately. I believe that My1OS is not suitable to use the RedHat way to make it commercial for the moment. Here is the reasons: 1. Huge parts of RHEL are done by RedHat themself, of course, they were build based on OpenSource components. While My1OS, it is built based on Ubuntu, which its entire structure remain the same as Ubuntu. 2. RedHat is charging for the subscription to their own repo, which is done by them self, and hosted by them self. My1OS is still solely dependent on the Ubuntu repo, and as we all know, the Ubuntu repo is free for public. 3. RHEL's source code are available for the public for free. Thus, CentOS exist, where it is entirely the same as RHEL, and this is how RedHat let the public use RHEL for free and settle themself without providing official support from RedHat. So, if My1OS is an OpenSource project, then the codes that is added to the original Ubuntu shall be release to the public as well. At least, it shall be available for the public to download and use without giving them official support. But so far, I can't seems to find any download links at the My1OS website. 4. To make My1OS able to be commercial, I believe just adding something on the original Ubuntu is not enough. It should have something more. Example, My1OS shall prepare own repo for as an additional repo inside the My1OS for regular updates on the components which has been added onto the modded Ubuntu of yours. Or else, it doesn't really make sense for people to pay for the distro copy if they are just able to have access to the Ubuntu repo which it is free for the public to access. You may feel that I am trying to attack you. But I would like to make it clear, I am not shooting at your project, I am just voicing out my own opinion from what I see so far. By the way, please do not tell me to buy the distro, as I do not intend to purchase anything at the moment. But I do hope to see a demo from you and your fellow developers during some OSS events. Also I hope that you can made it on the next inter-distro meetup and introduce your My1OS project to the community if you wish to convince the public that your distro are worth to be a commercial distro. Via these type of meetups or events, it is the best way to stay those to the OSS community and eliminate any misunderstanding among supporters of each distro. @Khalid Mohd I think it is best to be polite rather than just come in here and straight make enemy with everyone. It is ok to defend on the project that ourself working on. But still, since it is an OpenSource project, you should be good with the rest of the people in the OSS community. An OSS project will only be successful with the support of the community, be it your own project's community, or the whole OSS community in whole. By the way, as you said, the DVD burning and packaging of the cover do need cost. So wouldn't it be great to make it available for the public to download the ISO and burn the ISO them self? Anyway, I am not trying to be offensive to you, but I do hope that you can be more polite. Most of the time, people judge hows a group by how a member for that group behave. So I believe you wouldn't want people to think more negative about your group now, right? Finally, I hope everyone to stop engaging in distro wars. Its year 2011 now, distro wars shouldn't be still continue until now. In fact, all people from dpkg based distro should stop fighting! Have you every see CentOS guys bashing Fedora? I hardly see such case happen. This is how RPM based distros are well respected. Plus, nowadays each distros from each Linux family are working close to bring Linux to another level, to compete with the common opponent, M$ Windows. So we all, supporters from each different distros should stop fighting for the benefit of all of us. Anyway, after writing so many things already, to be honest, I also dunno what I am talking about now. Feel free to ignore what I have written. :) -- *GarfieldWTF <http://garfield.in>* Debian User Community (Malaysia) *http://debmal.my* -- To unsubscribe from and detail about this group http://portal.mosc.my/osdc-my-mailing-list-information MOSC2011 http://fb.me/mosc2011 MOSC Survey 2011 Awareness Of OSS Certification http://survey.mosc.my/mosc-survey-2011-awareness-oss-cert
