Boy Cliff, You just love to come on here and Flame people.
I think the big thing to think about is the fact that for the most part the Linux Community has been dying to push MS aside in the Desktop market, but to do that their really needs to be better open/non-open support when they release their OS. Maybe they should create some agreements with Ximian. -----Original Message----- From: Cliff Wells [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 7:42 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: new Redhat 9 and Red-carpet On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 07:25, Colburn wrote: > Isn't Ximian Evolution a *very* commonly used app? Evolution, yes. Connector, no. > Are you saying that it is unreasonable to expect RH to test to see if > their latest OS release actually *worked* with commonly used apps? Nope. > Are you saying that it's unreasonable to expect RH to provide a minimal > level of backward compatibility (say perhaps even only *one* level of > prior release)? There is a minimal level of backward compatibility. You are obviously referring to an app that didn't fall within that minumum. > No one asked for them to rewrite another company's app but the least > they could do is to flag incompatibilities *created* by *their* changes > so the customer may make an *informed* decision to upgrade or not. Anyway, RH did not "rewrite" Evolution. They may have applied a couple of patches. The may have recompiled it to run on RH 9 and take advantage of the new threading code. Besides Ximian Evolution is open source, Ximian Connector is not. RH did take the time to make sure that commonly used *open source* applications worked on 9. The did not do the same for proprietary applications. To expect them to do so isn't reasonable. > Since my office threw Linux out for these reasons I don't face these > kinds of embarrassing situations any more. It seems a little more > sympathy for those who do is in order. Let me guess, they threw it out in favor of Windows 2000 which isn't able to run a lot of older apps either. Makes sense. > My RH9 arrives soon. Wonder what else they broke that they *forgot* to > mention? If you're concerned about this, then wait to do the upgrade. That seems to be the common wisdom and seems reasonable to me. What features of 9 do you *require* right now that makes the upgrade necessary? I'll upgrade at home but you won't hear me bitching if something doesn't work. At work I'll probably stay on 8 for a while longer until third party apps get upgraded to work on 9. > Sigh ... doc "Sigh" indeed. -- Cliff Wells, Software Engineer Logiplex Corporation (www.logiplex.net) (503) 978-6726 x308 (800) 735-0555 x308 -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Unless otherwise expressly stated, this message does not create or vary any contractual relationship between you and ARC International. The contents of this e-mail may be confidential and if you have received it in error, please delete it from your system, destroy any hard copies and telephone the above number. Incoming emails to ARC may be subject to monitoring other than by the addressee. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
