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From: RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: List of 787 MS products
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2024 16:27:08 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2024-10-30, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
> On 2024-10-30 2:46 a.m., RonB wrote:
>> On 2024-10-29, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
>>> On 2024-10-29 3:08 a.m., RonB wrote:
>>>> On 2024-10-28, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
>>>>> On 2024-10-28 12:48 p.m., DFS wrote:
>>>>>> On 10/26/2024 9:30 AM, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Le 24-10-2024, DFS <guhnoo-basher@linux.advocaca> a écrit :
>>>>>>>>     From
>>>>>>>> https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/export/
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Let say that the major part of this list is only different versions of
>>>>>>> the same product. I'll try o remember that when you say there are too
>>>>>>> many Linux distros.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Right now distrowatch lists 165 active x86_64 desktop Linux distros.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> But 8-10 distros make up 90% of Linux desktop users.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What's the lesson here?
>>>>>
>>>>> People fork for the sake of forking rather than to improve anything.
>>>>
>>>> The lesson? Linux is open source and people are free do what they want with
>>>> it. No justification needed for forking it.
>>>>
>>>> Choice is good.
>>>
>>> It is great in theory, but everyone seems to want to have their own
>>> distribution so rather than working together for a common goal, they're
>>> working apart. Theoretically, the improvements go into the same pool no
>>> matter what but I wonder if they actually do.
>> 
>> It's great in practice. I don't WANT everyone working for a common goal, or
>> a single distribution. One distribution could be controlled by one group of
>> people. One distribution could more easily be attacked with an exploit. The
>> so-called "weakness" in Linux (too many distributions) is to me its
>> strength. It's how it says completely open source.
>> 
>> Choice is good.
>
> I'm noticing that a lot of people who think the way you and I do have 
> lost confidence in Linux and have started to move toward other projects 
> like Serenity, BSD, Haiku and now RiscOS. Linux is starting to smell as 
> bad as Marx did so some people with traditional values who also hate 
> proprietary software are opting to jump ship.

I'm not sure how you're getting "Marx" connected to Linux. Marx demanded 
compliance, Linux is for choice and freedom. It seems the *lack* of control 
and slavish compliance is what you don't like about Linux.

Choice is good. I don't know anything about Serenity or RiscOS, but I've 
tried BSD and Haiku (if you don't like Linux I'm pretty sure you won't like 
either one of them, but it won't hurt to give them a shot). I'll check out 
RiscOS and Serenity — I like the name of Serenity at any rate.

-- 
“Evil is not able to create anything new, it can only distort and destroy 
what has been invented or made by the forces of good.”  —J.R.R. Tolkien