[NTLUG:Discuss] Redhat self-destructs

[Christopher Browne]

On Sat, 07 Oct 2000 00:52:56 CDT, the world broke into rejoicing as
Steve Baker <sjbaker1 at airmail.net>  said:
> 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>

It's a pox on their own heads, to a great extent...

Much of the GCC development _and testing_ takes place at Cygnus,
"a Red Hat Company."

I agree it's not fair to those that are volunteers outside Cygnus,
but there should be a good chunk of "fairness" that comes out of
it, particularly if it goes badly wrong...
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