On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, Nick Wilson wrote: > * Trond Eivind Glomsrød said....
> > That's a very inapproriate question on this list. > > Why? > In light of other threads expressing the fears of many RH users about > this RH/AOL malarky I think it's *very* relevant. ... It is rude and offensive here, no different than propositioning the chaste hostess: "Want to f*ck at a motel?" at a formal dinner party in the presence of her husband. There are plenty of other venue to ply such troll-ish conduct in. Begone to them. ---------------------------------- Why is an AOL ownership of RH scary? They are spending the market cap (1.6B$) not to kill Red Hat -- AOL is trying to spend to avoid being killed (bled to death; having its air supply cut off) by MS. They (AOL) are trying to buy RH to roll what they consider a mature OS onto desktops, selling a service -- Consider the marketing pitch: For your AOL $25 a month, you NOW get a free selection of polished word processor, spreadsheet, Photoshop, local games (FreeCell), network games (a la EverQuest) ... which inter op with and look just like the MS or Adobe product. Along with Web and email and universal IRC/Chat Rooms. They are already used to pipe-lineing updates during a session, and so it self-maintains as part of the bundle, for 'free'. And it never crashes. 0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0 -- IF Charlotte were wiped off the Earth tomorrow, I'd start selling Owl River Linux two weeks later, and with 90 % of the RH featureset (including an automated backend development operation support) off the bat. I'd offer to hire (or a piece of the action in a partnership, a la the accountancy firms) the best and the brightest Red Hat'ians left -- They're not hard to find -- they each sign their commits in Changelogs every day (unlike other vendors); In working with them, I find they are a unusually _nice_ group of people. I mirror and archive all sources, and have for years -- and I am not alone. RH is a good GPL citizen (probably the best of the commercial packagers), and the GPL builds on itself forever. -- Russ Herrold _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
