[Yum] About Yum Server setup question

[Steven McKinney]

>  -----Original Message-----
> From: yum-bounces at lists.dulug.duke.edu on behalf of Seth Vidal
> Sent: Tue 9/16/2008 6:29 PM
> To: Yellowdog Updater, Modified
> Subject: RE: [Yum] About Yum Server setup question
>  
> On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 15:52 -0700, Skahan, Vince wrote:
> > Sigh - not to open a flame war but would it be 
> > possible to please hold the zealotry to a minimum
> > if you'd be so kind ?
> > 
> 
> 1. I don't think it's zealotry :)

Hear hear, and I've rarely seen so kind of an open 
source developer. 

I marvel at Seth's patience, and am in awe
of his good works, which make my daily work computing
experience far less stressful than that which
I experience at home on my closed-source box.

> 
> 2. I won't hold it down :)

Silence == complicity.  Thank you Seth.

> 
> 
> > Many of us work for employers where we do not have
> > the ability to live in an open source nirvana,
> > regardless of how much we might potentially agree
> > on its desirability.
> 
> And that means you shouldn't work to change both your employer and the
> world?

My ancestors worked for a vassal lord in a feudal backwater
society.  I appreciate their efforts to change that situation,
and I appreciate Seth's efforts to liberate me from the
current operating system lords.  I've pushed for open source
software at all of my jobs, often with success.  I recommend
the effort to all.  (I also donate to open source projects
and developers - money and code.)

> 
> I didn't say the original author was a bad person - I just said that
> closed source software is bad for the world.

Just ask disenfranchized American citizenry bamboozled
with Diebold voting machines.  Closed source software
has been used to undo some of our hard-fought gains.

Kudos to Seth and all like him!

Steve McKinney

> 
> 
> -sv




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