On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 5:15 PM, Harry Holt <harryh...@gmail.com> wrote: [snip] > Actually, it seems like a pretty clear synonymous interpretation to me.
I just happen to disagree. > Also, I think you are using "literally" wrong in this context, as Frank > clearly "literally" just did so. Sorry; I'm not an English native speaker. [snip] > SteamOS and Google Chrome are both created by companies that want to have > THEIR pieces of top-down control over YOUR computer. They may have > legitimate (read: "Intellectual Property") reasons for doing so, but that > *is* nevertheless their goal, so if you're okay with ceding control to these > for-profit corporations, and paying in tangibles and intangibles to do so, > then fine. If not, do not use their products. That's your choice, and I respect that. But apart from the fact that I would like to easily install whatever software I want in my computer, is not only for-profit companies that want to do that; for any free software program I wrote, if I want it available for all Linux users, either I find a way to create packages/ebuilds for each distribution, or I find someone that can do it for me. Or even simpler than that: If I wrote a daemon, with SysV I could not reliable write an script to starting it and stopping it in *all* distributions. With systemd that actually works. The old way doesn't scale. Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Profesor de asignatura, Facultad de Ciencias Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
