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On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 5:15 PM, Harry Holt <harryholt@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Actually, it seems like a pretty clear synonymous interpretation to me. |
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I just happen to disagree. |
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> Also, I think you are using "literally" wrong in this context, as Frank |
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> clearly "literally" just did so. |
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Sorry; I'm not an English native speaker. |
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[snip] |
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> SteamOS and Google Chrome are both created by companies that want to have |
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> THEIR pieces of top-down control over YOUR computer. They may have |
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> legitimate (read: "Intellectual Property") reasons for doing so, but that |
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> *is* nevertheless their goal, so if you're okay with ceding control to these |
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> for-profit corporations, and paying in tangibles and intangibles to do so, |
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> then fine. If not, do not use their products. |
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That's your choice, and I respect that. But apart from the fact that I |
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would like to easily install whatever software I want in my computer, |
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is not only for-profit companies that want to do that; for any free |
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software program I wrote, if I want it available for all Linux users, |
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either I find a way to create packages/ebuilds for each distribution, |
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or I find someone that can do it for me. |
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Or even simpler than that: If I wrote a daemon, with SysV I could not |
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reliable write an script to starting it and stopping it in *all* |
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distributions. With systemd that actually works. |
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The old way doesn't scale. |
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Regards. |
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Canek Peláez Valdés |
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Profesor de asignatura, Facultad de Ciencias |
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Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |
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