> I agree his answers are interesting, however he is not only obligated > to be but obviously is predisposed to favor one flavor.
Being that that flavor is one of 2 distributions offering toplevel enterprise support I'd say that his answers are more important than maybe you are giving him credit for. Let's not forget that Windows users have the ability to call up Microsoft and pay for "true" answers to issues, whereas Debian,Slackware,Gentoo,Fedora,Mandrake,etc have no immediate recourse other than the user community which of course may or may not help 100%. > He didn't really answer the question: "Without an official Red Hat > "civilian" distribution do you feel that you will have the ability to > sway hardware manufacturers to support gnu/linux?" > He just points out that Fedora will develop into a (civilian) solution for > many. > Knowing several die-hard redhat users(read: solution providers) I have > seen a tendency twards fedora adoption in both enterprise and civilian > usage. He did answer it, although indirectly. He thinks that customer demand and adoption levels are what will sway hardware manufacturers, not Red Hat's clout as a company. I tend to agree with this -- although this is what makes it a chicken-or-egg problem. IMHO "customer demand" for Linux-on-the-desktop will not increase until "the average person that needs to be able to plug in their digital camera without going into the terminal window" can do that without having a "sub-par" experience.
