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On Sunday 17 February 2008, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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> > So Hans and others could develop very cool features that 'plugin' |
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> > to reiser4fs, but, if they choose, folks would have to *PAY* for |
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> > these advanced features. That's the whole rub (in essence) as to |
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> > why reiser4fs will never make it into the kernel. Lots of kernel |
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> > folks *do not trust Hans Reiser*....... |
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> that accusations came up. I remember. But what about the extremly |
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> patched Distro kernels? They 'enhance' the kernels with 'special |
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> features' and demand money for them (yes, I look at you Redhat and |
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> Suse). |
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Which proves that the GPL is working AS DESIGNED. What's wrong with |
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that? |
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Red Hat don't lock you out from their stuff. The fee you pay is in |
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return for a promise from RH that if you have a problem with their |
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stuff and phone them, they will pick up the phone and talk to you. |
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If you don't like the fee structure, you know where the src rpm's are, |
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you just don't get the human support you didn't pay for. There's always |
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Centos who quite happily rebuild Red Hat's special stuff for you. |
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As for SuSE, there's no evil there. A lot of stupidity and a lot of |
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dumb-ass Novell who can't see a tree because there's a huge forest in |
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the way, but no evil. |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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