Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on February 13, 2005 06:34 AM
you are still wiggling?! [just kidding!]
Seriously, this is getting boring. So I will clarify: Mdk's corporate policy is, indeed, good. It's RH's lack of end-user/desktop/community interest which I deplore. If you will claim that I am making this "RH corporate focus" up I won't even bother arguing about it. You either see it or you don't.
By 'US patriot' distro I did not mean that RH's coders were flag waving Dubya-supporting terrorist-wannabe-killing rednecks. By that I meant that RH's popularity is mainly, but not exclusively, an American thing. Having lived for many years in the USA (where I still am now), I have observed many times over like many, but not all, Americans think of RH as *the* distribution and, even more so, tend to dismiss non-US distros without really comparing them. I have seen them put up with RH install failures without even wanting to consider trying Mandrake since "Mandrake is French shit" (I am quoting here). So let me re-phrase what I put. Here goes:
"It has been my observation that the allegiance of so many Americans to RH is can be mainly credited to parochial views and a primitive sense of nationalism of the kind seen in Ford SUV commercials".
Also, I am not decrying any distribution. I am observing that the citizens of the country whose Congress can seriously support "freedom fries" kind of behavior tend to judge distributions on patriotic grounds.
Lastly, just to clarify. I am not French (-: but I am a Trekkie<nobr> <wbr></nobr>:-)
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on February 13, 2005 06:34 AMSeriously, this is getting boring. So I will clarify: Mdk's corporate policy is, indeed, good. It's RH's lack of end-user/desktop/community interest which I deplore. If you will claim that I am making this "RH corporate focus" up I won't even bother arguing about it. You either see it or you don't.
By 'US patriot' distro I did not mean that RH's coders were flag waving Dubya-supporting terrorist-wannabe-killing rednecks. By that I meant that RH's popularity is mainly, but not exclusively, an American thing. Having lived for many years in the USA (where I still am now), I have observed many times over like many, but not all, Americans think of RH as *the* distribution and, even more so, tend to dismiss non-US distros without really comparing them. I have seen them put up with RH install failures without even wanting to consider trying Mandrake since "Mandrake is French shit" (I am quoting here). So let me re-phrase what I put. Here goes:
"It has been my observation that the allegiance of so many Americans to RH is can be mainly credited to parochial views and a primitive sense of nationalism of the kind seen in Ford SUV commercials".
Also, I am not decrying any distribution. I am observing that the citizens of the country whose Congress can seriously support "freedom fries" kind of behavior tend to judge distributions on patriotic grounds.
Lastly, just to clarify. I am not French (-: but I am a Trekkie<nobr> <wbr></nobr>:-)
Trekkie over and out.
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