I don't think you get my point here. I just use the word _product_ to mean _package_. So let's not argue about the term. Of course, we're talking here about Linux kernel as the main component. I don't think it's mimicry when you create your own distro from scratch, it's more mimicry when you use RedHat as your own base. I don't think Debian, Suse, Mandrake, Gentoo and other distro is a mimicry, IMHO. I believe mimicry is X=A and not X=A+B.
On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 13:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 11:38, Lito A. Lampitoc wrote: > > > Sa totoo lang hindi ito kwestyon ng panggagaya, kwestyon ito ng > > > kakayahan nating mga Filipino sa paglikha ng sarili nating produkto. > > > > > Huh? You mean you're going to write a kernel from scratch? Not a > new distro but a new OS? Because if you're talking about a new product > that's genuinely Philippine-made, then that's what you have to do. You > can't use Linus' or RMS' or Alan Cox's code. > > When you make you're own distro you're just repackaging. And when > you're repackaging what somebody else is repackaging to, that's mimicry. > -- > 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 -- Lito A. Lampitoc :http://www.codewan.com.ph Systems & Network Administrator :Countrywide Devt. Wide Area Network -- 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
