+------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | On (11/10/05 21:02), Alvin Oga wrote: | | Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 21:02:56 -0700 (PDT) | From: Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | To: debian-user@lists.debian.org | Subject: Re: debian vs ubuntu and knoppix | | | hi ya steve | | On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, Nate Duehr wrote: | | > Steve Lamb wrote: | > > Alvin Oga wrote: | > > | > >> - debian ... free ... | > >> - ubuntu ... commercialized version of debian's "hard work" | > >> which to me is wrong to do.. but oh well.. | > > | > > Uhhh, Alvin, you've been spreading a lot of disinformation on this list | > > lately. I mean a LOT of disinformation. This is a prime example. From | > > Ubuntu's front page, emphasis mine: | | just because you disagree doesn't mean you are right and i am wrong | so who is jumping on whose ass ??? .. have fun disagree-ing and flaming .. | | - and ubuntu does and always have promoted themself as commercial ... | commercial support as their primary business |
You do realize the project is funded by a multi-millionare right? It is not a commercial entity. | - sure they have free versions, but they also have not free versions | | even suse and redhat has free versions of almost the identical ocde | as what they're selling for $x,000 .. but, that doesn't make them | opensource, free, .. etc .. whatever you wanna call it | - or you want to argue what is opensource too :-) | | - it's called "free r/d and free qa dept" | | > Ahh... people can go read it for themselves. But Alvin's not wrong. | > He's also not 100% right -- as is typically with these things, the issue | > is more complex than one sentence can adequately display. He just has a | > slightly different viewpoint than yours. | | bingo ... one person will take one view ..and others will take a different | view, given that unbuntu has more than one core business idea/entity | | > http://www.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/licensing/document_view | > | > Some people find the Ubuntu spin-off inappropriate | | yup... but there will always be different ways and different reasons | for spinoffs ... some good .. some not so good ... | | (why didn't they just | > donate to Debian and try to get a commitment on release cycles?) | | that'd be too easy ... and probably because they can't call it "their own | widget" | | > Me? I just kick back and enjoy the flamefests and trolling... | | yeah.. that's always fun to see who jumps on who .. and why ... | | > if | > there's one thing that never changes about the Net and Free Software, | > it's that. | | hasn't changed in 30 yrs ... | | c ya | alvin | | | -- | To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] | with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
