Author: William C Vaughan Date: To: dng@lists.dyne.org Subject: Re: [DNG] Which is free, which is open source, et al.
Devuan, Dejuan it.
On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 6:17 PM William C Vaughan <curtvaughan@???>
wrote:
> Lurker here. Following this stuff for a couple of years, playing with
> Dejuan and its downstream variants with some success, some failures, but
> always interesting. I’m very empathetic to Steve Litt’s feelings on the
> systemd stuff, and am particularly inspired to reply to the latest missive
> on the possibility that Red Hat’s darling Mr. Poettering is primarily
> motivated to make Red Hat Enterprise lots of money in offering paid support
> of systemd Linux operations. As per politics, religion, educational
> prerogatives, and historical perspectives as officially endorsed, in the
> case of Linux and systemd, FOLLOW THE MONEY TRAIL. That nearly always works
> in tracing the sources of derision.
>
> From the perspective of a retired programmer/analyst, now dilletante, you
> Dejuan folks are on the precipice of success. See the forest over the
> trees, get your message out as an upstream solution to Linux in the
> enterprise - from servers to employee desktop/laptop solutions, there is no
> reason that systemd-free Linux alternatives can’t supplant the Red Hat,
> etc., cabal. They have MONEY, and that buys them exposure. My former
> employer, a major university, has bought Red Hat support hook, line, and
> sinker. You guys aren’t even on the radar. I only am aware of your
> position and offerings as an old fart hobbyist with time to explore. I wish
> you well. How can you compete with the power that is money that propagates
> Red Hat, Canonical, et al? That’s your main dilima right now, perhaps on
> the threshold of eclipsing your system development tasks.
>
> Cheers.
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