[TriLUG] AOL Redhat Linux?!?

[Paul D. Boyle]

Brent Verner wrote:
> 
> [2002-01-19 02:24] Greg Brown said:
> 
> | Red Hat, if you are listening, DON'T SELL!!!  At least not to these people.  
> 
> have you lost your mind?  :-) I can't imagine a more positive scenario 
> than having *nix users (even if the users don't know dick about *nix) 
> on 30 million machines.  What could be negative about this?

I have to disagree with you.  When a mass consumer firm buys an
engineering firm, I think, the result hasn't been good.  Think Compaq
buying Digital -- a perfectly good engineering firm got wasted
in the process.  No more Alpha processor -- I know at least one
theoretical/computational chemist who is none too pleased with that.

Personally, I am moving toward using SuSE more, so while I would hate
to see RH go down the tubes (especially being a local company), it would
affect me less than hardcore RH fans.


Paul


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