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Sean Neilan wrote:
> Good point. I don't put my music online either. Same with SSH & the IDE.
>
> I know it can run a terminal though. From a terminal, I figure I could
> try installing some apps by source and see what happens. I imagine they
> must be running gnome or kde in the background since it's built of linux.
>
> I'm just so excited because there's finally a real corporate entity
> behind a linux distro which I think is what the linux community has been
> needing for a long time. Ubuntu is OK, but, they don't have the money to
> make an OS like google or microsoft can. This shows because they release
> an update and half the time people run into bugs with wireless or some
> other garbage.
Uh. Canonical is backed by a multi-gazillionaire and a multi-million
dollar budget per year.
Red Hat is a publicly traded company that's been around for what, 15 years?
SuSE has been around nearly as long, and is now owned by Novell, who's a
multi-million dollar company going back to the 80s.
Oracle has their own distro. They've got gobs of money.
IBM has been heavily behind Linux for years, although they mostly do Red
Hat, I think.
These are not "real corporate entities"? They're not corporate
overlords actively seeking to monopolize all data in the universe so
that they can data-mine it to death and learn things about you that the
FBI needs a warrant for, true. Really, I DON'T want a Linux distro from
that sort of company; that defeats the whole "control your own computer
and destiny" aspect of the Free Software philosophy, which is precisely
what a "all of your data is in the cloud, meaning locked up in our
servers and not under your control" OS means.
And really, if you think it takes a big corporate conglomerate to make
good software, what are you doing in a LUG? :-) As a full time open
source developer myself at a company of less than 20, I'm not sure if I
should be offended or not.
> I can't help myself though because I love google. I love you google! I
> hate you microsoft!
I inherently distrust any corporation that size with that much data
about me. "Do no evil" lasts until evil becomes good for the stock
value, and then it goes out the window. Any publicly traded company is
required by law to do that.
I don't like or dislike Google. I just fundamentally distrust them (and
MS, and Yahoo, and Facebook, and all the rest).
--Larry Garfield
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