[Cumbria] CUMBRIA LUG -- Red Hat cp SuSE

[Michael Saunders]

On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, Ken Hough wrote:

> > Whilst we are 'distro-bashing', aren't SuSE tools like YAST
> > proprietry? Why are they so special?
> 
> Yes! The installation tools are proprietry (that's what we pay for), but
> Linux, or rather GNU/Linux is not and I hope will remain so.

Only semi-proprietary. And GNU/Linux will never become that, simply
because the GPL prohibits it. Sure, countries like China who don't give a
fig about copyright law may produce their own versions without source, but
that's futile -- if their enhancements don't get into the mainstream
projects, it doesn't benefit anybody in the long run.

We can only hope that those ridiculous laws proposed periodically in the
USA don't ever come into place -- that could be bad for Linux.

> Nothing like it!  But, a meeting of differing opinions can be very
> constructive / educational -- as long as we don't take it too seriously.

Well said!

-- 
Michael Saunders
www.aster.fsnet.co.uk