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

[David Damerell]

On Saturday, 24 Nov 2001, Roger Whittaker wrote:
>On Sat, 24 Nov 2001, David Damerell wrote:
>>Although, clearly, we really care about the people who work on free
>>software and not non-free installation tools... so that would be Red
>>Hat and not SuSE...
>This is more than slightly unfair. SuSE people do major work on the
>kernel, on X, on KDE and much else. The argument about the status of yast
>is an old one and I think most people have heard both sides of it.

KDE, given SuSE's support of it back when it was illegal to
distribute, is not really the best example of a committment to free
software.

[And, if you're not making money off the non-free-ness of yast, _are_
there two sides to the argument?]

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David Damerell <damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk> flcl?

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