On Monday 03 November 2003 10:40 am, Rick Moen wrote: > Red Hat is a very benign and friendly company. Most firms are a great > deal worse towards the community, and we of the Linux community have > seldom had allies as dependable as Red Hat is. Understand that, > sometimes, they behave like a business... because they have to.
I agree. I must say, I really like Red Hat as a company. I believe the way they're shaping GNU/Linux is essential for the community as well as for enterprise opportunities for the system. Take Bluecurve, for example. They endured a lot of criticism on that so-called "step back", but I think it was actually a leap forward for providing a suitable GNU/Linux desktop environment. (Though personally, I still use Blackbox. But for users fresh from other OSs, it was quite something.) Unlike some other commercial companies, like that mongrel Lindows, for example (*rant, rant*), Red Hat is actually Good and Right. On Monday 03 November 2003 09:33 pm, spikes wrote: > That is why Debian (and to all those with social contract) is great! Red Hat is moving towards other pursuits. Like Rick said, they're a commercial group, but even as one, they've been taking a deviant course, just to prove that Free/open source software is marketable and applicable as solutions in many environments. This is actually another Good Thing from Red Hat. GNU/Linux needs corporate/enterprise (will I say commercial?) support, and that's exactly what Red Hat is giving it. I admire Red Hat's show of support for and confidence in Free/open source software. They've given the Linux system the push in the right directions: it wouldn't be the same today without them. Fedora is also still quite active. Having choices is good. :) (Disclaimer: We run RH 7.2 on the general server. I use Mandrake/Gentoo/Debian for my personal boxen. Don't brand me as a Red Hat geek. ^_^) -- Paolo Vanni M. Ve�egas Ateneo Cervini-Eliazo Network Team III BSCS, Ateneo de Manila University -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
