I just had this vision of Comic Book Guy from the Simpsons blurting out, "Worst distro ever!"
Seriously, though, this argument seems specious to me. I use Ximian and Red Hat and I'm pretty happy with the combination (though I think Ximian was more stable on RH 7.2 than it is on 8.0); but blaming Red Hat for incompatibilities between Ximian and RH9 is kind of like blaming Ford for making a new line of cars that isn't compatible with the carburator I like to use. The burden of compatibility lies with Ximian in this case. It's in no way irresonsible for Red Hat to build a product which they believe is more stable and better able to meet the needs of its customers, even if some of those customers are no longer able to use a tool that they like. Besides, I wonder how many RH customers actually use Ximian? I'd be willing to bet that even if all of the Ximians users boycotted Red Hat, it still wouldn't make much of a dent, if any, in their sales and profits. Out of all of the RH users in my LUG, I believe I'm the only one using Ximian. Most of the others are using Mozilla or KMail or JPilot or other tools, and have decided for various reasons not to use Ximian's products. > So RH9 is a complete solution and has no need to function correctly with > any outside apps to meet all of the reasonable needs of all who pay them > money for their OS? > > Ximian didn't change things RH did so it follows that for the sake of > happy customers (read: those who keep them in business) it would make > sense for RH to be certain that the thousands of customers who use > common non-RH Linux apps with their OS are not unduly inconvenienced by > changes that they make. (Or at least to make certain that those they > are asking to upgrade know what may be broken if they pays their money > and loads their upgrade.) > > Hardly an unreasonable expectation of a business that expects customers > to trust them and to keep coming back to spend their money. > > doc > > On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 10:53, Richard Humphrey wrote: >> It seems to me IMHO that it is up to Ximian to verify wether or not >> one of their progs work on a given OS. Now if RH 9 came with said app >> and it did not work, then there would be basis for an argument. >> >> Richard Humphrey > > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- Slainte, Richard S. Crawford AIM: Buffalo2K / Y!: rscrawford / ICQ: 11640404 http://www.mossroot.com http://www.stonegoose.com "It is only with our heart that we can see clearly. What is essential is invisible to the eye." --Antoine de Saint Exupery -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
