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Subject:    [opensuse] I like MINT, was: Question about Free Software policies within the
From:       Patrick Shanahan <paka () opensuse ! org>
Date:       2010-12-24 0:01:01
Message-ID: 20101224000101.GK8086 () wahoo ! no-ip ! org
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* Doug <dmcgarrett@optonline.net> [12-23-10 18:42]:
> Rant on:
> It has finally come to a boil with me!  I'm so damned sick of hearing
> Linux people disdain anything with a copyright, or anything one might
> actually have to pay for!  In the first place, practically every older Linux
> distro was _sold_ to the computing public: SuSE and RedHat in particular.
> In the second place, all you folks who are so gaga about FOSS--how many of
> you are dissecting the software and rewriting it, or adding to it, or doing
> anything at all except _using_ it?  Not even 1%, I'd bet.  I'm especially
> up in arms with Debian, who won't even let you have a nice clean Firefox
> or Thunderbird.  They've stolen those, changed maybe a word somewhere,
> and renamed it, and claim that _now_ it's FOSS!  Thank God for distros
> like MINT, which make no bones about making all sorts of useful software
> available, no matter where it comes from.  And for the ones who at least
> don't condemn it, like Debian does.
> :ffo tnaR

If you are so enamored with mint, why are you *ranting* here, just
spreading fud?
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