8.0 problems.

[Janina Sajka]

Adam, I don't understand you. On the one hand you criticize RH for being loose about their approach to the GPL and
fiddling with kernel settings. Of course, the GPL does allow this. You do know that, right? Then, in the next sentence
you criticize them for dropping MPEG support because of Fraunhoffer's recent patent rumblings. Isn't that adherence to
the GPL?

So, what's your problem? You want strict interpretation? Or not?

Seems to me you can't have it both ways, logically speaking. Not that anyone needs to be logical, I guess. But, I don't
understand the principles you seem to be trying to espouse here. What are they, exactly?

Adam Myrow writes:
> From: Adam Myrow <amyrow at midsouth.rr.com>
> 
> On Sun, 6 Oct 2002, Geoff Shang wrote:
> 
> > I've been absent from the list for awhile.  What is this hz thing and why
> > has redhat messed with it?  Presumably it provides some kind of improvement
> > in someone'se opinion.
> 
> Typical of Redhat.  There release notes say it is supposed to provide
> better performance and using a value of 100 is a throw-back to the 386
> days.  I don't know how they changed it unless it involved modifying the
> source.  I really didn't like a lot of what I read in the Redhat 8.0
> release notes.  For example, they dropped mpg321 and all MP3 support
> because MP3 is patented.  Yes, we all know the problems with patents on
> software, but this is getting ridiculous.  Ogg hasn't caught on yet, and
> until it does, there needs to be some support for MP3.  Another thing I
> didn't like is the statement that Lilo is obsolete and will be removed in
> the next version of Redhat.  Nobody else is using Grub, and I seem to
> remember that the web site states that it is not ready for production use.
> I don't like how Redhat seems to be trying to appeal to idiots by saying
> that they are on the cutting edge when what they are really doing is
> dropping features that every other distribution of Linux treats as
> standard.  Still, despite all this, I am curious about redhat 8.0 and hope
> to eventually find a mirror that isn't tied up to download it and play
> with it.  Especially since it has Gnome 2 and perhaps I can do some
> alpha/beta testing on Gnopernikus.
> 
> 
> 
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				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

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