Re: [LI] ilug-cochin minutes for Jan 2000

[Raghavendra Bhat <ragu@xxxxxxxx>]

Moinak Ghosh's post is an ego support for another post:

> Very very true ... religious arguments within the Linux community is not going to 
> help at all.

How not ?? 

Same argument propounded and put forward by Red Hat Linux when giving a
reason not to join the
Linux World Conference & Expo which is due next month.  What are they
shirking away from ?? 

> Red Hat, the leader in Linux market share, has declined to participate. "We think this 
> distribution vs.distribution showdown format is counter-productive  to the Linux community,
> " a spokesperson says.  "Instead of clarifying anything, it will only serve to confuse."
>

We  have had got similar justifications in the past from very senior,
knowledgeable persons 
on this list. It seems that the Linux community will get fragmented.  Or
am I blinded by FUD ?

> Bruce Perens, an open source software pioneer and president of Linux Capital Group in 
> Berkeley, Calif., says that not all Linux packages are entirely open source. He'd like to 
> hear the vendors explain what is and what isn't open source in their distributions. 
> He'd also like to hear the vendors comment on how they are giving back to the open source
> community. As an example, he points to VA Linux providing Web hosting for open source 
> projects. 
>

Bruce Perens is one of the founders' of Debian GNU/Linux. Someone is
likely to say now, 
"Do not listen to him".


> Bill Claybrook, a research director at Aberdeen Group in Boston, says it will be interesting
> to hear how the companies plan to encourage independent software vendors to port their 
> applications to Linux.  "How will the Linux distributors work with the independent software
> vendors to provide them with a more suitable release cycle?" Claybrook asks. He says that
> new releases of Linux are issued much more frequently than new releases of most other 
> operating systems, making it challenging for third-party developers to keep pace.
>

Quite true.  Red Hat Linux 6.0 and in no time we have 6.1. Our own PC
Quest brought out 
Red Hat 6.0 and 6.1 within a span of less than 6 months.  Do we want
these kind of
release cycles ??  Does this not reek of one upmanship ?  For
what....pure commercial 
interest and not out of love/respect for the GNU/Linux community.  Love
for the crisp
GREENBACKS ;-))





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