Am 20.10.2013 12:52, schrieb Daniel Campbell: > On 10/20/2013 04:24 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >> Am 20.10.2013 08:34, schrieb Daniel Campbell: >>> hm, Redhat is one of the companies investing the most money into linux >>> kernel, userland, graphics... if you 'don't trust them' you are pretty >>> much 20 years too late. >>> Investing money does not make them any more qualified or deserving of >>> making decisions. Red Hat is not the sole user of Linux. They should >>> consider themselves lucky that they are even able to profit from >>> something that's free. >>> >>> You're right, though. They've been around for a while, and I've never >>> trusted them or any other corporate interest in *nix. There's always a >>> catch when dealing with a business. >>> >> 'have been around for a while' - replace that with 'are financing more >> core developers than anybody else'. >> > That's less reason to trust, not more. That's like citing the popularity > of something as proof of its quality, when oftentimes it's the exact > opposite that's true. > > So they spend a lot of money hiring developers. The more important > question is what is their agenda? What do they tell those developers to > *make*? You don't hire people without a business plan in mind. > > without Redhat, there would be no linux. gnu software would be massively lacking and X would be without drivers.
So calm down.
