Randall R Schulz wrote:
Martin,
On Wednesday 22 December 2004 01:57, Martin Deppe wrote:
Well guys,
I think you really worry too much!
The HEART of Linux is neither SuSE nor any other commercial company/corporation but the open source society - so WE.
That is true, in essence, but as a practical matter, things might well be worse for many SuSE users were it to change substantially or, god forbid, go away.
As a software professional with very long history of using Unix, I'm comfortable with taking on as much responsibility as it takes to get a system that suits me. I've considered myself lucky to be able to get SuSE for so little cash--it frees me of all but the most basic local configuration and from all but a very little package building.
A good distribution is a great convenience for me, but for others its the difference between getting what you want and having to make do with a less ideal system.
I've used only a few distributions, so I don't have a very wide basis for comparison, but I think I'd be disappointed if SuSE (the distribution) wandered very far from its current makeup and the philosophy behind it.
Yours Martin
Randall Schulz
Yes, I fully agree with you and I have to admit that I haven't much contributed to the open source community yet regarding programming, but started to try to help users and people to convert from M$ to Linux :-) Anyways there is no need to worry since we will find a way to continue with this stream. Consider how it started and now we are muuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuch further, aren't we? Yours Martin -- Martin Deppe Bramfelder Chaussee 30 c D-22177 Hamburg Tel: +49-(0)40-69 21 38 99 Handy: +49-(0)171-94 778 59 Fax: +49-(0)40-2549 1651 E-Mail: Martin.Deppe@web.de