On 25 Jun 2003, Lito A. Lampitoc wrote: > Let's not compute the amount of money we have to put up, take the > example of debian, they don't hire programmers to support their distro, > I'm not really sure if they have an office space for an overhead, maybe > they're just paying for the bandwidth, what I'm trying to say here is, > maybe DOST can also create their own distro, with support of Filipino > contributors, if the Americans and the europeans can do it, i believe > that we can do it too. I believe there is an overflowing talents here in > the Philippines, if we only knew how to take advantage of it. > > This may sound idealistic, but small things like FSF, begins from it.
So for the purposes of argument, you want to take the Debian model, instead of a redhat one, why isn't _JOINING_ the debian effort more practical? Or for that purpose, creating a distro that modified for local use and -is based- on the efforts of Debian? Wouldn't that be more productive? I do believe we have overflowing talents but that is not the point here. That is a given. The point is making good and productive use of those talents, not spending them on needless efforts for the sake of 'national pride'. I don't see why we need to differentiate ourselves from the rest of the world on a project that is ALREADY GLOBAL IN NATURE, when we can join in the effort and help in moving the technology of open source a step further. -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
