Re: The sorry state of open source today

[Radu-Cristian FOTESCU]

--- Matt Olander [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 It seems more like legitimate debate going on to me ;-)

Legitimate, granted. But I was hurt by the way he has put things.
Imagine how it is to have a blog with almost 2,900 posts written by me since
Aug. 12, 2005. This makes an average of 4.6 posts/day. From the 4,230
comments posted by readers over the time, some of them were very offensive
(hundreds), but just figure it that I had to reject hundreds of _very_
offensive comments.

I must be tired and writing such a polemical `feature' (essay) in 3 days was
exhausting. I was then very much surprised to see that the most coherent
attack (on both me and Jem -- `The sorry state of The Jem Report', remember?)
is coming from a FreeBSD developer.

 FYI, the FreeBSD Foundation has not yet signed off

Well, with or without the Flash agreement, 99.999% of the users will find
their way.

Thanks for your clarifications,
R-C



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Re: The sorry state of open source today

[Radu-Cristian FOTESCU]

--- Tom Rhodes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 What was it that you said then?  I actually cannot remember.

Page 7: Except for the *BSD family, whose members are either _*_backed_*_ by
501(c)(3) non-profit organizations like The FreeBSD Foundation or the NetBSD
Project, or the task of individuals like Theo de Raadt for OpenBSD and Matt
Dillon for DragonFly BSD (by the way, your donations to either of them are
appreciated), the 500+ Linux distributions fall roughly into two main
categories: the vast majority of the distributions are made by the
enthusiasts, for the enthusiasts, and a given number of them are mainstream
distros, supposed to be trustworthy and polished enough to satisfy both the
corporate-minded user and the home user.

Backed != controlled.

 Next time write
 about dogs if you don't want all the attention.  ;)

Nay, because I love cats, and guess who is a cat lover too? ;-)

OK, moving on, I am back to better feelings now. The next week I have to
migrate my home Linux installations to FreeBSD and NetBSD. I have four
different Linhooks distros currently.

Cheers,
R-C



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