Oh, come on.
He was decrying a completely ridiculous attitude that suggested that if
it was possible to patch up the Mandrake distribution so that it worked,
then the user ought to be happy.
This is simply silly.
And he never suggested ditching Mandrke for M$; he did implicitly
suggest ditching Mandrake for another distribution, but that's entirely
different.
The idea that Mandrake sells a "do it yourself" kit, as it were, and
that it's ok for permissions and numerous other "little details" to be
wrong is ok, I guess, if they sell it as the "Heathkit" of the
distribution business, but they don't--they promote it as a "newbie",
easy-to-use distribution.
Some of this attitude would be ok for Slackware, I guess, which promotes
itself more as a kit for "real" programmers, but not if Mandrake is
going to promote itself as it does.
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