[lug] "red hat - the new redmond?" comment from mainstream online media

[j davis]

also....the MS of Linux would be Lindows....where else in the Linux 
community
do you have to pay for what others get for free coupled with lies?
"MS apps will run on Lindows"
I am really glad that Mandrake is selling on the "wal-mart boxes" now.
Lindows could only hurt the good linux name I think. But Mandrake...
now thats a OS.

jd


>From: Sean Reifschneider <jafo at tummy.com>
>Reply-To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
>To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
>Subject: Re: [lug] "red hat - the new redmond?"  comment from mainstream 
>online media
>Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2002 18:46:21 -0600
>
>On Sat, Sep 07, 2002 at 04:19:54AM -0700, bill ehlert wrote:
> >"There is growing concern in the Linux community that industry-leader
> >Red Hat will become the 'Microsoft of the Linux world.'"
>
>What are you trying to say?  People seem to like to call Red Hat the
>"Microsoft of Linux", for reasons that honestly escape me.
>
>Quite frankly, SuSE resembles Microsoft more than Red Hat, at least in the
>ways I consider to be bad...  Red Hat participates in the Open Source
>community -- they provide the source for *ALL* the stuff on the CDs you
>get, under a license that allows you as the user to modify it.  That's one
>of the reasons that Red Hat is such a popular system to use as a basis.
>
>SuSE has a closed installer specifically to *KEEP* others from being able
>to create a SuSE-based distribution.
>
>Microsoft is bad because as users we can't modify, improve, or learn from
>their system.  They use things like file format changes to lock users in to
>continued upgrades and their proprietary software.
>
>Red Hat has, if anything, moved *AWAY* from proprietary software -- their
>boxed sets no longer include demo or license restricted software.
>
>So, I just don't see that it's happening.  The only thing I see is people
>trying to sensationalize the popularity of Red Hat.
>
>Sean
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thanks,
jd

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