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Originally Posted by magnunor View Post
I'm amazed noone has mentioned Red hat. Based on open source software and a Fortune 500 company.
Red hat is a bit of a mixed signal. A lot of their stuff is copyrighted, but a lot of their stuff is also open. If Red Hat were completely open, there would be no need for CentOS. But, the nice thing about companies dabbling in this here, obviously defunked and horrid eco-system known as "open source" - is they like to share and play well with each other. Red Hat and CentOS actually have very good communication with each other. I took an RHCE boot camp and asked about CentOS in the classroom, and the Red Hat paid employee said clearly by all means - use that at home to prepare for the exam if you don't have a RHEL 5 license.

Anyway... I'm certainly not going to be answering either shakespear or PradaQueen if they choose to argue with me.

Here's my only real question: Maemo repository gods: Where is the extended attributes in the repository for me to block Prada and Shakespeare from ever downloading my apps . I mean, it shouldn't matter: Since they aren't using any open source at all anyway.. I wouldn't want them to get any use out of something they hate so much.. that would make them hypocritical.. we all know they aren't that.

(We just all have to realize: They don't have a single free app on their android phone (nor run the OS, they just have phones with Google's closed 3 whole apps on it), don't have a single free open app on their iPhone, and don't have an N900 or run any of the apps in our N900 repositories.)

Because.. you know.. if they can't make that claim.. well that totally debunks their entire stance right there.
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