I like to agree with manny here: "I don't see how Red Hat limits one's freedom to choose anything. One doesn't have to choose Red Hat 8.0, and one can still install the full KDE on it."
If RedHat does that with its distributions, that their prerogative. They may be reasons behind it. And we may not like that reasoning. So, if we don't find that acceptable then we use another distribution. Or another option for us who still opt to get the RH distribution is to install it ourselves. It's the same thing I think most of us would think here about *icrosoft *indows OS. Well, some of us would rather live with that kind of commercial software... let them be. But for others who would rather have softwares bundled with their source code, then they prefer OpenSource. *icrosoft and RedHad do not limit our freedom of choice. They actually enhance our freedom by giving us options. In the end, it is us who make the choice. Now, for KDE to maintain it's market share then it must sustain the demand for it. And in order to do that, it must give something more than what is being offered by RedHat. Well who said being OpenSource would replace the Darwinian principle: "Survival among the fittest." Actually, it would work well for all of us in the end if this would become a healthy competition between KDE and GNOME. Everybody becomes happy because everyone gets the best of the two. :) __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Searchable Archives With Friendly Web Interface at http://marc.free.net.ph To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
