dep wrote: > begin Michael Scottaline's quote: > | NOT good news. I've never used Turbo, but their failure [if true], > | while not totally unexpected, contributes to a sense that the > | "business model" for OSS might ultimately be doomed. > | I know some will argue that by it's very nature, OSS will survive > | (Debian, Slack, and others). But developers have to eat and as > | "employers" fail, the plight of some becomes more perplexing. > | let's hope the bleeding stops here. > > it won't. the big, master shakeout has been expected for some time. > turbo was the distro with the most to gain from unitedlinux -- my > guess is that they'll stay alive in some form, if just as the > far-eastern sales office of unitedlinux. if unitedlinux survives, > which right now i'd say is a mighty big if. (actually, not just right > now -- it's been doomed from the start, imho, because of its "screw > you" attitude toward the existing base of desktop users and > developers, something that is, unfortunately, epidemic in linuxland.) > > the real question is, when the smoke clears it will be red hat, its > sidekick mandrake, and who else among commercial distros?
lycoris maybe. and that Collins' distro :) -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ L. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo: http://netllama.ipfox.com 6:05pm up 91 days, 50 min, 1 user, load average: 1.12, 0.83, 0.68 _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
