Re: [SLUG] list of distros

[QuantumG <qg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dean Hamstead wrote:

> sorry, i just didnt like the tone of the email. im 100% debian and
> bsd


Wow, I'm being chastised for things I *didn't* say now.  Cool.

Yes, as I understand it Xandros doesn't not participate in the open 
source community.  They just leech what they can get, add "value" and 
try to sell it.  No, there's no *requirement* that they participate in 
the community.  I just wanted to know if I had this right.  It's really 
hard to tell if Xandros "gives anything back" and I was wondering if 
anyone knew if they do.

Obviously when choosing to pay for a linux distribution I'd like to know 
things like this so I can factor it into my decision making process.  If 
there is a choice between two equally good, equally priced linux 
distributions and I know that one of them actually contributes something 
to the community and the other is just a leech I'd probably go with the 
one that contributes something to the community.  But that wasn't the 
point of my inquiry, I just wanted to know if I had my facts straight or 
not.

Trent