while the comment may look like it rips debian, I believe that caldera is not trying to compare itself against other distributions but other operating systems. being a linux user for about 4 years(and being very strongly opiniated(sp?) about it and open source) i dont take offense to the comment. while debian clearly includes the largest selection of free and open source software(nobody disputes that) caldera includes a wide variety of non free/commercial software. although i think that SuSe and Mandrake with their 4-5-6 CD distributions do a much better job at including "Everything but the kitchen sink" then caldera does :)
nate On Sun, 27 Feb 2000, Chirag wrote: mannan >Dear debian users mannan > mannan > I would like to draw your attention to certain ugly an unlinuxy comment mannan >on the web site of a mannan > Linux distribution about other distribution(s). mannan > mannan >Quoting from mannan >http://www.calderasystems.com/support/docs/2.3/gsg/introduce.html mannan > mannan >Improved best-of-class package selection, with each Linux application mannan >carefully chosen to be more useful and refined than the "everything but the mannan >kitchen sink" products from some Linux packagers mannan > mannan >Unquote. mannan > mannan >This is an obvious reference to debian if not for others, which is the mannan >largest distribution and include mannan >most freely available packages. I strongly feel that this kind of comments mannan >is very bad for Linux and mannan >should be ripped in the bud itself and what is justfication for this when mannan >the company seems to benefitting mannan >from the works of millions of developers who test and 'robust'fy mannan >applications that may have been called mannan >toilet bowl applications in the near past. mannan > mannan >Those Linux distributions should find a dramatic change of policy in mannan >marketing rather than continuing mannan >the Microsoft tradition, like what Linus D. Torvalds has done to the Open mannan >Source movement. mannan > mannan >Here customer is not King but an intimate friend. You would not try to mannan >impress a friend by mannan >accomplishments that are actually someone else's! mannan > mannan >By the way, I would like you persuade fellow debian users/develepors who has mannan >some connection with mannan >India to actively promote the distribution in this country. mannan > mannan >Thanking you mannan > mannan >previ mannan > A red hat user mannan > mannan > mannan > mannan >-- mannan >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null mannan > ----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336 http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By: http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMP http://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 12:55pm up 191 days, 1:16, 1 user, load average: 1.16, 1.05, 1.01
