Fedora - DELL ?

[Arthur Pemberton]

On 3/14/07, Lyvim Xaphir <knightmerc at yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 20:55 -0500, Paul Osunero wrote:
> > For those who are wondering where the survey is:
> >
> > http://www.dell.com/content/topics/global.aspx/corp/linux?s=corp
> >
> >
> > The discussion at the dell blog shows that people really want Ubuntu
> > first, Fedora second, and Suse third out of the big three.  To be
> > honest, Ubuntu makes more sense because they'll have legal codecs from
> > Linspire's CNR and they have commercial support.  Fedora lacks these
> > things right now...
> >
> > Still... it would be nice if they added both Ubuntu and Fedora as an
> > option with "unsupported" next to whatever distribution they don't go
> > with.
>
> Users care less about distros that don't work in the real world.
> Because of the self-flagellating ideological crusade adopted by Fedora,
> they are now second fiddle to Ubuntu.  ESR has been telling them that
> for many moons now.
>
> The primary function of an operating system is to serve the user; thru
> greater technical merit, and not to pick a religion for the user.
> Whenever an operating system devolves from that former purpose, it
> basically removes itself from the domain of the user.  That's what's
> happening to Fedora now, because of the Alan Cox's and the Greg KH's and
> the Andrew Mortons of the world.  The Ubuntu guys realize that
> programmers have the right to license their code however they please,
> and that it's not the purpose or stated goal of the OS to dictate code
> licensing choice.  The purpose of the OS is to run user programs, and
> not to force use of it's developer's favorite licenses.  Ideology is the
> _user's_ domain, not the OS's.  That's why Ubuntu will continue to clean
> Fedora's clock.

I regret starting this thread now.

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