[WBEL-users] Rsync Updates Organizing

Michiel van Es michiele@info.nl
Fri, 19 Nov 2004 18:54:25 +0100


William Hooper wrote:
> Michiel van Es said:
> [snip]
> 
>>That sucks big time!
>>Is this a COMMUNITY distro or not?
> 
> 
> http://whiteboxlinux.org/
> "White Box Linux's initial creation has been sponsored by the Beauregard
> Parish Public Library in DeRidder, LA USA out of self interest."
> 
> Who says anything about "COMMUNITY"?  The library decided to do a rebuild
> of the publically available RPMs for their use, and to provide a copy of
> it to the world.  End of story.  If you don't like how Whitebox is managed
> (which is your right), then there are other rebuild projects that may
> better suit your style.  If I were John, everyone yelling at me would make
> me more likely to shut off the main mirror and just keep the work I did
> for myself.  Luckily, I'm not John.
> 

I understand but where is the freedom/acceptance to allow people to 
speak their mind and hear their complains about his product?
There have been many times people offered help for maintaining the 
updates..all unanswered..
That's my complain/problem with Whitebox and it's maintainers.

M.