United Linux: why MandrakeSoft will not join

[Net Llama!]

Matt, sorry, but i've got to call you on this.  First, what has to be
recomipiled for each distro?  Most binaries will happily run on just about
any distro released in the past 6 months.
Second, Mandrake stopped basing their distro on Redhat well over a year
ago.

That aside, sure Mandrake seem to be a bit overconfident in themselves,
but i don't know that is a bad thing.  I'm not the least bit convinced
that UnitedLinux has any chance of changing the futures of its
participants.  Mandrake seems to have finally found a business plan that
works for them.

On Wed, 3 Jul 2002, Matthew Carpenter wrote:
> Does anyone have a shovel?  These guys could use some help getting out...
> getting their head out of the sand is going to be the most difficult part
> of the rescue.  What threshold would they like crossed before admitting
> that there is some "splintering"?  Ok.  So the "splintering" doesn't look
> the same as it did for Unix, but the fact that you have to recompile for
> each distro does spell SOME disaster... Oh, I forgot.  They don't DO their
> own work, but build off of Red Hat.  Ooops.  I guess that's ONE way to
> keep compatible.  Perhaps the other four should jump on the RH-base
> bandwagon and give up this foolish shenanagan of making their own
> distro-base.  Then again, maybe we don't WANT Linux to be in one basket...
>
> On Tue, 2 Jul 2002 16:02:40 -0400 (EDT)
> "Net Llama!" <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:
>
> > http://www.mandrakesoft.com/company/investors/bsa/faq2

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