Re: [Gnu-arch-users] fedora core 2 will include subversion (and not gnu arch)

[Zenaan Harkness]

On Sun, 2004-02-22 at 14:37, Tom Lord wrote:
> The interest of volunteers in achieving fame, recognition, and acclaim
> is hardly detached from economic interests.  Rather, that kind of name
> recognition is one of the few roads to employment in the current
> business conditions which are created by the very businesspeople who
> are "marvelling" at people's willingness to work for them for free.
> It is as if these businesses looked out over a field of 10,000 people
> and announced "We will give good jobs to the 100 of you who can jump
> the highest for the longest -- the rest of you lose" and then, turning
> to their friend, said "Isn't it amazing how much these people like to
> jump?  We have no idea why they are so inclined."
> 
> Who gives a flying fuck about fedora?   and why the hell should the
> effort of people wanting to help arch succeed go to fedora?   Who died
> and left Red Hat in charge?
> 
> Ah... right.  I remember now.  Once upon a time there was a GNU
> project.  It's goal was to build a "complete system" and liberate
> users and programmers from those commercial practices that would
> divide an conquer us.   I wonder whatever happened to those guys.
> 
> 
> "Who are your friends?   Who are your enemies?" -- Quotations from
> Chairman Mao Tse-tung (the "little red book")
> -t

Hear hear!

Exceptionally well put.

zenaan