Re: [tlug] Zurus distributions experience

[Sotaro Kobayashi <sotarokob@example.com>]

Yes, I agree now.

When I joined a Mr. Richard Stallman - rms' s open lecture at conference 
with several distribution of Novel, RH, Debian,Mandriva sevaral years ago,
I unfortunately could not hear his opinion about the situation.

If we could have an opportunity to meet him,
we really want to hear his opinion and GNU / GPL policy about this.

Sotaro



Edward Middleton wrote:
> Sotaro Kobayashi wrote:
>   
> > Edward Middleton wrote:
> >   
> > | Not all distributions support ARM but most of the important ones do.
> >
> >
> > Yes, I am scared about this point.
> >
> > For me,
> > the situation which not all importamt distributions are supporting ARM 
> > seems to infringe "The right to write software unimpeded by private 
> > monopolies" in GNL.
> >
> > Without considering hardware architecture neutrality in writing the 
> > program under GNL,
> > it seems to me that we need to stop using Linux on that hardware. :-(
> >   
> >     
>
> I think you have got it the wrong way round.  SuSE and Mandriva decided,
> unilaterally, holding private monopolies over their respective
> distributions, to not support the arm architecture.  That is their
> right.   That is not to say that someone couldn't port OpenSuSE or
> Mandriva to arm but that Novel and Mandriva aren't going to do it for you.
>
> That doesn't stop a developer from writing applications that run on both
> SuSE, Mandriva and any other distributions and architectures.  I would
> argue that,  it improves the likelihood that developers will write
> portable code by making architecture specific assumptions obvious.
>
> If you we were talking about porting applications to arm assembler I
> could see your point but the big advantage of using Linux is that most
> applications don't need porting, they just need to be recompiler.  That
> is the reason so many distributions supported arm so easily.
>
> Edward
>
>   


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