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

[Roger Whittaker]

I don't deny this - of course work is done by people, not by companies -
however if Linux is to reach its rightful place the survival and
prosperity of at least a few commercial Linux distributions seems to me to
be pretty well a necessary condition.

When I said 'funded and actually done', you can't deny the 'funded'.  I
agree that the 'done' is technically inaccurate - however at least some of
this work would not get done at all if it wasn't funded.

On 24 Nov 2001, Nix wrote:

> On Fri, 23 Nov 2001, Roger Whittaker spake:
> > Thanks for this - people sometimes forget how much of the important
> > development work is funded and actually done by SuSE, RedHat etc
>
> None. Humans working for those companies do the work; and in many
> (hopefully most) cases, they'd still do it even if they weren't working
> for a Linux distributor (just not so fast).
>
>
> Picky point, maybe, but I don't want to see the sort of attitude that
> leads to e.g. HP stating in their manpages' authors sections things like
>
> : awk was developed by AT&T and Hewlett-Packard, Inc.
>
> (Really; no mention of Aho, Weinberger or Kernighan. HP's manpage trolls
> seem to think that only corporate entities can ever produce anything.)
>
>
> Individuals exist. Corporations are merely fictions, incapable of
> *doing* anything at all.
>
>

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