Re: Why Red Hat is not distributing qmail

[Russell Nelson]

D. J. Bernstein writes:
 > I tried to work with Donnie Barnes. I put a lot of effort into making
 > qmail distributable in binary form. But he isn't willing to guarantee
 > cross-platform compatibility.

He's committed to cross-platform compatibility -- in the form of the
File Hierarchy Standard.  "What if the FHS changes?"  He doesn't want
to have to come begging, on his knees, for the permission to comply
with the industry standard, in violation of your standard.  Dan, just
because you decide something, that doesn't make it an industry
standard.  As someone else said, "Who does he think he is?"

The basic problem is that you don't trust Redhat.  If you trusted
them, then you would give them the freedom to distribute modified
binaries.  Redhat is returning that distrust.  Not only that, but
Donnie is so confident that you have sufficiently marginalized
yourself that he isn't going to bother to dispute you.

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