Re: [Plib-users] Fwd: Re: flightgear problem

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I can understand why Plib - Developers/Users are annoyed about the problems with Plib and Redhat and that includes me, but lets face it there: will always be bugs and wrong decisions. 
And other Distributions had their share of problems as well.

Suse for example messed something up with X binary/lib versions which caused problems with SDL. Something I had to find out the hard way when trying to demonstrate a SDL application to a customer on one of their computers which was using this version of Suse. Not one of my pleasant memories...

I really dislike statements like "This or that high prestige group has done that"
This is more something I expect from a politician than from someone on an oss mailinglist. 
I dont know anybody who could speak for a group so vague as "power users"

Redhat has done quite a lot for Linux imho and they are free to choose any Compiler version they like and no matter what teir decision is, I dont think it justifies an insult like "becoming another microsoft", which is probably the worst insult possible in the free software world.
(If anybody can come up with a better one , tell us :)

So can we just calm down and keep this type of stuff at the absolut minimum on the mailinglist ? This would be rather positive for the Signal/Noise ratio.

We can of course meet on IRC to flame about this, thats where holy distributions wars belong. Its also a lot more fun in realtime :)