Re: [gentoo-user] WOT:According to SUSE CEO we're not here?

2003-08-23 Thread Stroller
On Saturday, 23 August 2003, at 1:24 am, Ernie Schroder wrote: SuSE's CEO Richard Seibt chose to demonstrate a high degree of arrogance. In response to CRN's question about Windows to Linux migration, Seibt insisted that Linux means two companies: Red Hat and SuSE, and nobody else.

Re: [gentoo-user] WOT:According to SUSE CEO we're not here?

2003-08-23 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Saturday 23 August 2003 18:38, Stroller wrote: On Saturday, 23 August 2003, at 1:24 am, Ernie Schroder wrote: SuSE's CEO Richard Seibt chose to demonstrate a high degree of arrogance. In response to CRN's question about Windows to Linux migration, Seibt insisted that Linux means two

Re: [gentoo-user] WOT:According to SUSE CEO we're not here?

2003-08-23 Thread Stroller
On Saturday, 23 August 2003, at 10:53 am, Jason Stubbs wrote: On Saturday 23 August 2003 18:38, Stroller wrote: I think he's saying Gentoo doesn't exist in terms of outsourceable o/s support contacts. You can buy support from RedHat (and presumably SuSE) that you can't from Gentoo. Gentoo's

Re: [gentoo-user] WOT:According to SUSE CEO we're not here?

2003-08-23 Thread bob bob
I'd be really interested in reading about this.. is the Dev ML archived somewhere I can get to it without having to sign up for the DEV ML ?? Imagine a school with children that can read and write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we

Re: [gentoo-user] WOT:According to SUSE CEO we're not here?

2003-08-23 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Saturday 23 August 2003 19:54, Stroller wrote: I don't think anyone (or at least many folks) here would argue with the statement that Gentoo is a wonderful distro, and it's certainly getting better all the time. But I don't believe that GLEP #14 addresses the moving-target nature of Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] WOT:According to SUSE CEO we're not here?

2003-08-23 Thread Alec Berryman
On Sat, 2003-08-23 at 07:11, Jason Stubbs wrote: I guess you're right, here. In the enterprise, it's if it is broke, fix as little as possible, isn't it? What do the commercials do? Backport the security fixes to previous versions to ensure minimal change? I guess that's a good thing. The

[gentoo-user] WOT:According to SUSE CEO we're not here?

2003-08-22 Thread Ernie Schroder
SuSE's CEO Richard Seibt chose to demonstrate a high degree of arrogance. In response to CRN's question about Windows to Linux migration, Seibt insisted that Linux means two companies: Red Hat and SuSE, and nobody else. http://www.distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20030818 Is Meister Seibt

Re: [gentoo-user] WOT:According to SUSE CEO we're not here?

2003-08-22 Thread Alec Berryman
Just read the slashdot post? ;) If you read the entire thing, he's just talking about major commercial support. On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 19:24, Ernie Schroder wrote: SuSE's CEO Richard Seibt chose to demonstrate a high degree of arrogance. In response to CRN's question about Windows to Linux

Re: [gentoo-user] WOT:According to SUSE CEO we're not here?

2003-08-22 Thread Ernie Schroder
Which he doesn't really have, and shouldn't if any of the recent polls are considered. SUSE places #6 or 7 in most polls I've seen lately with about 1/2 the user base of Gentoo. On Friday 22 August 2003 08:36 pm, Alec Berryman wrote: Just read the slashdot post? ;) If you read the entire

Re: [gentoo-user] WOT:According to SUSE CEO we're not here?

2003-08-22 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Saturday 23 August 2003 00:43, Ernie Schroder wrote: Which he doesn't really have, and shouldn't if any of the recent polls are considered. SUSE places #6 or 7 in most polls I've seen lately with about 1/2 the user base of Gentoo. don't mix home-users/enthusiasts with business-users.