On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 10:26, elfick wrote: > On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 10:07, Jeremy Portzer wrote: > > Sure, the position and comments of a company are important to the > > general goal of Linux advocacy. I too am dissapointed in the Red Hat > > CEO's comments about the status of Linux on the desktop. But these > > types of things will NOT make me stop using Red Hat / Fedora, as I use > > them based on their technical merits. Fedora Core 1 hasn't even been > > released yet, and still everyone is griping that it's not for them. Why > > don't you TRY it first ? > > I could see and understand someone changing products based on statements > from that products producer. In an open market this is often an > excellent way for the consumer to display their dissappointment in a way > that effects[sic] the company more than a call/letter.
That is a good point, if you were already a paying customer. However I'm not sure it's a big deal since most of the complainers were using the free download version of Red Hat Linux anyway. The OSS world is a bit different than standard consumer products in this regard. --Jeremy -- /---------------------------------------------------------------------\ | Jeremy Portzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] trilug.org/~jeremy | | GPG Fingerprint: 712D 77C7 AB2D 2130 989F E135 6F9F F7BC CC1A 7B92 | \---------------------------------------------------------------------/
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