On 11/7/06, Tito Mari Francis Escaño <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I recall the assertive stance of OpenBSD Theo de Raadt that Linux can and will show cracks not only in it's technical but also in it's legal, consequently moral, position as far as licensing is concerned. It would be misleading to say that Linux is about to die, it's just
nobody is concluding that yet.
that many development time was spent playing catch-up to Microsoft and with it, many subscribed to the idea that Microsoft way of doing things is/are better, admittedly or not. Should Novell be proud of the deal they made? I don't think so. They opened the floodgate of further FUD into Linux development, if Linux really is a reliable platform, why prioritize or give weight to having to interoperate with an unreliable, crash- and virus-prone one?
I am beginning have technical differences with linux though. From the setuid issue to user space device drivers like xorg. In addition to the complexity issue. If somebody forks linux silently...
On 11/7/06, Rogelio Serrano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11/6/06, eric rosel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Here's a more plausible one: > > > > http://asia.internet.com/news/article.php/3641851 > > > > peace! > > -eric > > > > i dont like this whole story so far. microsoft like to keep their > friends close and its enemy even closer. and somehow microsoft always > managed to get what it wants. > > im making sure my projects are ready to run on freebsd from now on. i > dont like where linux is headed... > > maybe its time to start contributing to the hurd... > > -- > the thing i like with my linux pc is that i can sum up my complaints in 5 items > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) > Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > -- Tito Mari Francis H. Escaño Computer Engineer and Free Software Proponent _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
-- the thing i like with my linux pc is that i can sum up my complaints in 5 items
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