From: "Paul Ranson" 

In many cases on Linux or BSD the OS distributor provides
installable/buildable ports of apps. It's clearly incumbent on the OS
distributor to fix those ports when errors show up. The FreeBSD ports tree
is very cool and can update from downloaded sources simply with a make.

Paul

"Adam Flinton"  wrote in
message news:40327f3c$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> Paul Ranson wrote:
>
> > If RedHat supplied Oracle or SAP then yes.
>
> No problem with that. I also have no problem with RH or BSD or Apple or
> anyone packaging fixed OSS or proprietary software & doing the update
> thing. However I do have a problem with jumping from an application to
> the underlying OS where the app is clearly not an intrinsic part of the
OS.
>
> Adam
>

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