[nylug-talk] I'm a Gentoo convert.

[Peter C. Norton]

On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 11:32:55AM -0500, Ruben Safir wrote:
> This is similar to what I was saying about Apache and the Debian packaging
> in a prior thread.  In the case of Apache specifically, it is designed to
> be built and distrubted and customized from source.  

OK, so unless I'm missing something, are you expecting people to build
and distribute it from something besides the sources? Maybe from the
jpgs on the web site?

Why are we still stuck talking about the religion of how to hand
someone something for free in 2007?

The reality is that the software is out there. for the most part it's
free and as long as you don't get pissy with the author they'll help
you as much as they can (deferring to the distro when they've
broken/fixed something). 

Beyond that, why do you (and others) want people to have to buckle
under and subscribe to a sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-specialization of an
overall beneficial ideology or else you won't respect their choices?
This isn't supposed to be about preventing people's choices.

IMO if you didn't write the software and you're not contributing to
it, you don't get the right to b***h about what gets done with
it. Leave that to the people who have to deal with it because they
take responsability for it. Stop talking shit from the gallery.

-Peter

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