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

[Roger Whittaker]

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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