Distro version numbers - Was:; Re: [Gllug] RH 7.1 -> 7.2 upgrade problems

[Pete Ryland]

I'm thinking that without funding (and hence deadlines, budgets, etc.) the
software might be better thought out and end up being a better product.
Also, traditionally, free software is generally written by experts in their
field, whereas non-free software is often written by any bod who happened to
apply for that job.

Pete

On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 04:52:11AM +0000, Roger Whittaker wrote:
> I think it's clear that it's a mixture of the two - some work would be
> done whether it was funded or not, albeit more slowly: other work would
> not get done at all.
> 
> However my main point was essentially simply this - that the existence of
> commercial Linux distributions is more or less essential if Linux is going
> to make real progress toward the aim of `world domination'.
> 
> On 28 Nov 2001, Nix wrote:
> 
> > I'd prefer to think that either it would get done more slowly, or it
> > wasn't worth doing --- but in practice this may only be true if you
> > think like the hackers who wrote the code :)
> >
> > (but maybe not. People thought that hackers would never bother to write
> > user-side applications, but things like Gnumeric pretty much disprove
> > that.)

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