On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 09:46:27PM -0600, Scott Dier wrote: > > However, instead of working with their fully able customers to create a > 'enterprise' level operating system, they decide to pull it all in house > and not allow collabration with users. > > Wow, I'm really happy we stopped the redhat train after 6.2 and I can > collabrate with others on projects for debian, where I actually have > some input on what happens and its with mindshare, not money. I've never had problems emailing the maintainers of the packages with (real) issues and getting them resolved. Perhaps if you were to mail them in a more tactful manner, with less of a debian-zealotish tone, they would be more inclined to listen to you rather than file you away with all the other annoying email they get. RedHat is a company, Debian is not. RedHat is making money, Debian is not meant to. One of the reasons RedHat is 'closed' about their packages (as far as not having non-RedHat people manage them) is because you end up with things like eggdrop packages that are 3 years old because someone just stopped maintaining the package. > > -- > Scott Dier <dieman at ringworld.org> http://www.ringworld.org/ -- Matthew S. Hallacy FUBAR, LART, BOFH Certified http://techmonkeys.org/~poptix GPG public key 0x01938203