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On 22 September 2014 07:13, Frank Peters <frank.peters@×××××××.net> wrote: |
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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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> |
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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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Let's make ten different electric sockets, twenty different way to |
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calculate version number for softwares, thirty software licenses, and |
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don't forget to make at least five mutually-incompatible APIs for |
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every browser features that all do roughly the same thing differently. |
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Oh, and everyone had to write their dates in Month-Year-Day, period. |
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Is your life any better from having this kind of "diversity"? |
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Encouraging pointless differences is not supporting diversity. In |
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contrary, encouraging pointless differences *kills* diversity. |
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Diversity is a mean to the end of producing better software system, it |
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isn't an end of itself. If having less diversity means that I can take |
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my software, bring it to another totally different system, and it |
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works just as well as it was, then so be it. |
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