From: papresco@napier.uwaterloo.ca (Paul Prescod) Subject: Re: The best way to "support Linux"! Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1993 21:01:21 GMT
In article <1oieidINN2t4@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> cc935@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Gerrold T. Sithe) writes:
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> I agree with Rick Miller when he says the best way to contribute to
>Linux is to contribute to its development. A few other posts pointed out
>the lack of organization, lack of integration, and so on. These are valid
>points, but we are not SCO, inc. World acceptance of Linux is not our goal,
>is it?
In a few weeks I start a job programming for DOS and Windows. Ask me again
if I want Linux to be accepted in the "real world." You bet I do!
> My understanding is that Linux was started as and continues to be a
>hacker os, not an os with "production values." I'm a little afraid that if
>people start caring less about development and more about packaging, Linux
>will suffer the same fate as Microsoft products...more popular perhaps, but
>internally bogus.
How does one group of people, some of them technically incompetent,
interfere with another group building the OS? Linux advocacy groups
aren't going to tell you what and how to build the OS. They will
just present it to the outside world, and provide cohesion even in
development. I wonder how many projects people have had to cancel
half way through because someone else released the same thing, that they
had both been working on. A development registry would stop this.
All we are proposing is a central "switchboard" for all the Linux
projects currently going on, and a "think tank" for future projects.
Can this really be so bad?