Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on October 02, 2003 03:11 AM
> why don't they just admit they are copying Mandrake, this is more like Mandrake than it is like Debian.
Actually, it's more like the (former) relationship between AOL/Netscape and Mozilla, which means that Mandrake copied the approach just as much as Red Hat.
Besides, are you saying that if one Open Source project, such as Mozilla, comes up with a good way to balance development and business, then no one else is allowed to use the same approach?
> I hate it when redhat takes this attitude, for years they refused to offer a decent package management solution because others beat them to it
Ahem. This is why I called you clueless. If you learn a little bit about Linux history, then you can avoid making such silly statements.
First, while Mandrake may have a fully independent (and excellent) distribution now, their original distribution was just a modified copy of Red Hat Linux.
Second, Mandrake and SuSE both use RPM package management. RPM stands (stood?) for Red Hat Package Manager, because it was originally developed by Red Hat. Others were able to adopt it, however, because Red Hat, in their usual pro-Open Source tradition, released all the RPM code under the GPL license.
Now Mandrake and SuSE may have improved their package management procedures since the early RPM days, but it's ridiculous for you to accuse Red Hat of just copying others, and failing to contribute.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on October 02, 2003 03:11 AMActually, it's more like the (former) relationship between AOL/Netscape and Mozilla, which means that Mandrake copied the approach just as much as Red Hat.
Besides, are you saying that if one Open Source project, such as Mozilla, comes up with a good way to balance development and business, then no one else is allowed to use the same approach?
> I hate it when redhat takes this attitude, for years they refused to offer a decent package management solution because others beat them to it
Ahem. This is why I called you clueless. If you learn a little bit about Linux history, then you can avoid making such silly statements.
First, while Mandrake may have a fully independent (and excellent) distribution now, their original distribution was just a modified copy of Red Hat Linux.
Second, Mandrake and SuSE both use RPM package management. RPM stands (stood?) for Red Hat Package Manager, because it was originally developed by Red Hat. Others were able to adopt it, however, because Red Hat, in their usual pro-Open Source tradition, released all the RPM code under the GPL license.
Now Mandrake and SuSE may have improved their package management procedures since the early RPM days, but it's ridiculous for you to accuse Red Hat of just copying others, and failing to contribute.
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