purely open source (was Re: RH8.0 (was Re: bluecurve))

[David Talkington]

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M. Hornung said on Mon, 6 Jan 2003:

> Isn't that what/all Debian is revered for?  (/me has never used Debian)

Speaking only for myself, but where I come from (LIS at Illinois) it was
revered for its stability in a server capacity, vs. Red Hat, which made a
great workstation but was too prone to breakage due to that company's
preference for pushing the envelope (some people never really forgave them
for gcc "2.96" :-).

> |long term this policy would certainly encourage further opensource 
> |development efforts.  Given that Redhat is the most widely used linux 
> |distro this could be a "good thing" although it is a gamble between 
> |converting Winbies in the short term and creating a product that is 
> |"Pure" and free from any proprietary entanglements(?).

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David Talkington
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