D. Olson wrote: >On Saturday 11 May 2002 10:55 am, you wrote: > >>that is my opinion too. still, mandrake has the big market share in linux >>right now, and suse compares well with mandrake. redhat.... well, in many >>ways doesn't. is redhat afraid they are on the way out? >> >>if so, why try to keep share by taking other linux users rather than >>windows? >> > >They AREN'T. They are simply giving a discount to other Linux users... > >If I bought Mandrake PowerPack 8.2, then I decided "hey, I'd like to buy Red >Hat 7.3 as well" I would rather pay $10 or $20 less JUST BECAUSE I BOUGHT >MANDRAKE. And that is what they are doing. You don't sign any agreement to >NEVER use Mandrake again, you don't have to agree that you REMOVE it from >your PC, or anything like that. Quit complaining about a company that is >giving Linux users a discount. > >And how could Red Hat be on the way out? They are supported by the big >companies, such as IBM. > Well, last I looked, Intel and IBM were digging in their pockets for $45 million to bail out SuSE, but you are right about just giving linux users a discount.
A competitive upgrade makes no sense at all for someone who is using JFS or XFS or Reiserfs and wants to "upgrade" to RH, so it must be just a discount for dual-booters. Civileme >
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