On Sun, 2003-12-07 at 08:41, Marc Wilson wrote: > On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 06:02:16PM +0100, Mathieu Roy wrote: > > I remember about a message from a guy from RedHat saying more or less > > that he see no point in supporting an environment/wm that do not > > follow the new standards decided at freedesktop.org... > > Just as a data point, you do realize that freedesktop.org is a wholly owned > and operated subsidiary of RedHat, right? > > Oh, you don't think so? Take a look at who their god-king is. Take a look > at where their mailing lists are hosted. Karsten has detailed in another > thread his interactions with that group. > > Then think about whether RedHat has a vested interest in *not* supporting > anything that doesn't view the world the same way their annointed "God of > the Desktop" does.
Ahh ... thanks for pointing this out. I knew there was a conspiracy to pre-empt and subvert all competing desktop standardization efforts. By no less than those evil Microsoft wannabes themselves, Red Hat! We should take it even more personally - no point dealing on superfluous technical level. Cynicism aside, can anyone point to Carsten's thread for some other individual's POV? ta zen -- Debian Enterprise GNU/Linux: http://debian-enterprise.org/ * Homepage: http://soulsound.net/ * PGP Key: http://soulsound.net/zen.asc * Please respect the confidentiality of this email as sensibly warranted.
