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On Sun, 21 Sep 2014 14:22:38 -0500 |
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Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 2:20 PM, Barry Schwartz |
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> <chemoelectric@×××××××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> > The words ‘Red Hat’ have put a chill down my spine for nearly 20 |
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> > years. |
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> I know, right? A company that actually pays money to developers so |
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> they could work on Free Software. |
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Check out page 18 of the 2014 GNOME Asia talk: |
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http://0pointer.de/public/gnomeasia2014.pdf |
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"Our objectives: |
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Turing Linux from a bag of bits into a competitive General Purpose |
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Operating System. |
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Building the Internet's Next Generation OS. |
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Unifying pointless differences between distributions." |
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Can it be any clearer that the Gnome (RedHat) folks desire to |
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usurp total control of the Linux ecosystem to serve their own |
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ends? RedHat needs Linux to make a profit and it will mold |
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Linux to better attain this end. |
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Is Linux currently just a "bag of bits." A lot of people |
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would take serious issue with this inane comment, but according |
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to the Gnome (RedHat) folks they are here to save us all |
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from the terrible shortcomings of Linux (whether we want it or |
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not). |
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Notice the remark about the "pointless differences between |
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distributions." This is nothing more than a disguised condemnation |
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of the diversity, variety, and choice which has always been the |
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strongest feature of the Linux world. |
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Now check out page 5: |
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"What's systemd again? ... The glue between the applications and |
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the kernel." |
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IOW, the kernel and the applications, once sufficient in themselves, |
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will now require the product that they (RedHat/Gnome) make and control |
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in order to function at all. Don't like it? Tough. Try and find a |
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distribution without it, and good luck re-writing all this stuff from |
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scratch all by your lonesome. |
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But why stop here? All they need to do is get rid of Linus Torvalds |
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himself. After all, he's just a nuisance from a previous and obsolescent |
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generation. Let's have the truly progressive folks, like RedHat/Gnome, |
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assume command of it all. |
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