Well, if I (and many others, and i think the majority) switched to Linux was to get away from the atrocious win32/64 api... Now, some folks are trying to inject those api's into Linux... What makes me feel relieved are the community oriented distributions (note Debian and Fedora, mainly). These distros will not succumb to "inventions" and experimentation on Linux.
Roy Schestowitz
2010-02-16 22:33:44
It's more complicated than that inside Debian, but that's a story I would rather not touch as it upsets many people (who comment here).
nrballard
2010-02-15 05:48:56
This post makes no sense. The story contradicts the headline without any further explanation or context.
Is the point of the story that Shittleworth has contradicted himself?
Roy Schestowitz
2010-02-15 14:55:13
Not quite.
On several occasions he spoke about how Ubuntu/GNU/Linux should be unique and not rely on Wine, for example. But he is allowing Mono to become part of Ubuntu.
Given Mozilla's utterly rubbish marketing these days (politics over technical aspects), set aside the cheerleading for slop, there's hardly a chance of Mozilla Firefox reaching or exceeding 10% again
"before that, every distro that wanted to respect its users' freedom had to remove itself all of the binary blobs that were distributed as part of the kernel Linux's so-called sources"
we very seldom see anyone deviating a lot from the "template-like" narrative, let alone mentioning "layoffs" or "RA" or some other term that implies non-consensual departure
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Agent_Smith
2010-02-12 19:02:09
Agent_Smith
2010-02-16 22:21:14
Roy Schestowitz
2010-02-16 22:33:44
nrballard
2010-02-15 05:48:56
Is the point of the story that Shittleworth has contradicted himself?
Roy Schestowitz
2010-02-15 14:55:13
On several occasions he spoke about how Ubuntu/GNU/Linux should be unique and not rely on Wine, for example. But he is allowing Mono to become part of Ubuntu.