[NTLUG:Discuss] Redhat self-destructs

[Steve Baker]

Chris Cox wrote:
> 
> >From the people who brought you glibc before it was ready...
> >From the people who brought you mounts by volume name before it was ready...
> 
> ...now comes gcc 2.96 (before it's ready)...!!!
> 
> Come on Redhat!!  This one is going to cause them some grief.
> 
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-announce/2000/msg00003.html
> 
> To their credit (LIKE ALL OTHER DISTRIBUTIONS MIND YOU), Redhat
> has brought their own "good" inovations too... so they're not
> ALL bad, but this BLEEDING (and I mean bleeding) edge
> technique of jumping ahead of the other distributions for
> the sake of creating incompatibility ... thus making you
> want to switch to their distribution ... well it sounds
> like something a company with monopoly on their minds
> would do.

The worst of this is that it's *so* unfair on the developers
of GCC.  They are going to be bombarded with a gazillion emails
from people whose programs don't compile properly.  It really
is a terrible abuse of the Open Development model.

<shudder>

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