* Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001-07-25 07:50] schrieb:
> > > If I did not already consider them stupid for shipping gcc "2.96", I would
> > > start doing so now... *sigh*
> >
> > Gee you've been very easy on them. Why wait so long to come to this
> > decision?
>
> Because I use their distro only seldom. If the KDE people would use proper
> C++ I'd probably have come to that decision much earlier due to the support
> for that other toolkit...
>
> > RH dropped LyX from powertools after they made a complete FU of powertools
> > 5 when they included LyX linked against 0.86 and shipped 0.81 on the cd.
> > At the time we had also dropped support for 0.81 so even if you tried
> > rebuilding from srpms you still couldn't get it working. Perhaps they
> > didn't like our GUII idea or the KLyX port which was being rumoured (since
> > everyone had said gtk wouldn't win outright).
>
> This smells like some political decision...
redhat takes sometimes strange political decisions, sometimes license related,
sometimes even stranger
netscape is still included (and completely non-free), but lyx/xforms is not (which is
imho more free)
pine is still included (also non-free)
there are several alternatives to netscape, but none to lyx
there are hundreds of alternatives to pine, but none to lyx
i'd accept their decision to include only free software, if they were consequent
i will talk to a redhat guy at the evening, maybe me gets heard ;)
>
> Andre'
>
--
ronny
