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  From: Dan Shearer <dan@tellurian.com.au>
  To  : David Lloyd <lloy0076@rebel.net.au>
  Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 09:22:11 +1030 (CST)

Re: java

On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, David Lloyd wrote:

> > filesystem layout, plus their RPM implementation and package names. M is
> > not just a rip-off operation, they have paid for many thousands of lines
> > of code.
> 
> I didn't actually mean to imply that they were a rip-off operation; 

I'm sure you didn't. Many do though.

> that I believed that they actually took a release of the new RedHats,
> added their own stuff, patched a good number of the library source code
> and so on...

They have never done this as far as I know.

> Obviously they do their own development now :-P

Gael took RH5.1 (5.2?) and put KDE and libraries on it for his own use,
put up the ISO image, posted a message and went on holiday. When he got
back from holiday he had a huge inbox, distributors in Australia and the
US were selling CDs with his ISO and people were contributing fixes. Gael
nearly swallowed his false teeth. http://www.portalux.com/nnl/686.html.
After that more or less they started development. So Mandrake pretty much
never didn't do their own development. Mandrake have some interesting
differentiating factors (as do most of the others.)

--
Dan Shearer
Open Source Manager
dan@tellurian.com.au

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