FLAME____ Why is the kernel source not included

[Carroll Grigsby]

On Friday 15 October 2004 12:11 am, Ken Johanson wrote:
> Answer not needed, I'm keenly aware of the politics behind this.
>
> But I'd forgotten about this "issue" and spent my time trying out what I
> though must be a viable distro...
>
> But since it didnt detect my DGE-530 NIC, and the drivers that Dlink
> kindly provides need to be compiled, I'm SCREWED by the politics because
> a bunch of headers and fundamantal-to-any-Linux kernel source is not
> installed. Thats right, the most rudimentary component of the system
> besides the kernel itslef, not placed in /usr/src/linux. Flame*Nuclear.
>
> And it doesnt exist as an option under the add-remove app's so called..
> but FAR FROM complete.. "developent tools" section either.
>
> Be giving Suse, Mandrake, etc another look. No time for Redhat games.
>
> -PS anyone who wants to waste keytrokes telling me that *I* should
> research some Redhat specific way of getting the kernel - even if its
> obtusely hidden on a disk... dont bother.


Does it strike anyone else as ironic that Mr. Johansom is running Windows? I 
for one would love to see the responses he got from Microsoft when he flamed 
them for not providing access to their source code. (It is left as an 
exercise for the reader to do the appropriate Google searching.)
-- cmg