On Tue, 30 Mar 1999, Ed Cogburn wrote: > > Hmm... that's right, but it's only a matter of people talking to each other > > and agreeing upon one policy - the dists that don't follow the chosen > > standard, can rearrange their layout starting with the next release (yes, I > > know, it might be quite difficult, but worth the effort). There's no point > > in > > creating something new instead of using one of the few, very well tested and > > proven solutions. > > > The closer RH gets to becoming the 'de facto' standard, the less > likely they are to be inclined to talk to *anyone* about > 'standards' for Linux distros. I fear the point at which RH drops That's a sad truth...
> its interest in LSB and other cooperative discussions about > standards and simply says: "If you want the standard Linux, you > have to buy it from us". Power corrupts, and absolute power > corrupts absolutely. And yes, if you haven't figured out by now, > I *don't* trust RH. :-) Neither do I. I spent too much time making their dist a safe one to use on a public access server... marek
