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The point of a distribution is to provide a complete, working system. It's not just a collection of independent components, it's curated such that the whole is
by regularfry 11y ago
The point of a distribution is to provide a complete, working system. It's not just a collection of independent components, it's curated such that the whole is coherent.
- moron4hire 11y agoSo the shit MS got blasted for: bundling IE with Windows.
- lwhalen 11y ago2 things: you have to manually install a Web browser. Under Debian, it is equally as easy to install Firefox as it is to install chromium and other competing browsers (no lock-in), and the big one: you are not compelled to pay for Debian like you are for Windows.
- jhasse 11y agoDoesn't matter, Debian hasn't a monopoly.
- yebyen 11y agoNot even remotely comparable. Firefox is not a product of Debian, and Debian is not nor ever has been in a "monopoly" position with respect to any market.
- joelg236 11y agoI think you know as well as everyone else that that's not the same thing. MS did not provide an option to uninstall IE, where debian literally has dozens of FF alternatives at your fingertips.
- regularfry 11y agoMS didn't get blasted for the how, they got blasted for the why.