Re: [ossig] Enterprise Linux: UserLinux, Debian

[Dinesh Nair <dinesh@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 20/08/2004 14:53 Yusseri Yusoff said the following:
> I foresee that it will remain that way. Mainly because MAMPU often 
> reminds themselves of the "Guiding Principles". Colin's suggestion is
>  extremely practical, I think and it should be brought to the 
> attention of MAMPU. ;-) I

which is important. there's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip,
which means that a misunderstanding what what is inherently open becomes
locked in to begin with.

> landscape won't change that much. The vendors will do as they always
>  do. However, on the optimistic side, lots of attention has been 
> brought to this by MAMPU to the government agencies in their

i don't blame the vendors for attempting to do it, i usually criticize
the evaluators for *falling* for it. far too often, the evaluators do
not have enough skills themselves and end up believing whatever PDF
White Paper gets delivered to their mailbox as fact. yes, this is an
indication of a larger problem, but nevertheless it is this problem
which causes well-meant plans and policies to go astray.

> issues. Where am I going on this? Well, the "fixation" on Linux as 
> the only OSS OS is gone. Next is trying to gain more visibility on

which is good. what i think is needed though are "guidelines",
preferably published as a PDF or hardcopy and distributed to the
government agencies, which outline these thought processes and
implementations. this serves both as a guidance document as well as
education for those who're grappling with it.

if the implementors and evaluators do not have information which is
complete, they'll end up falling for the same old tricks all over again
and the situation does not change much.

> the Other one. There's actually a FreeBSD desktop at the OSCC on 
> public display, apparently. Runs KDE, which makes it virtually

well done. now, can we ditch the FreeBSD desktop and have a FreeBSD
server instead ? :)

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