[CS-FSLUG] Puppy Linux

[Ed Hurst]

On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 13:46:07 -0500, Stephen J. McCracken  
<smccracken at hcjb.org.ec> wrote:

> I just saw this article about Puppy Linux on DistroWatch:
>
> http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20070625#feature
>
> and was wondering what David's and others' reactions were to his take on
> the community around Puppy Linux.  (Basically he says that the distro is
> nice (though not fully GPL), but the community isn't that nice.)

If accurate, it's very sad. It's also quite common in Open Source  
development. There was a period when that sort of stuff happened with  
GNOME, one of the SuSE forums, and so forth. It's one thing to have a  
flamefest, as a regular feature of Net communications on anything; it's  
another to have posts deleted and such. Where I play moderator in other  
places, I am quite reluctant to do such things. I'd rather give an answer  
to a flame, making it instructive regardless of the issue.

-- 
Ed Hurst
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