Re: Re: [school-discuss] The end of Red Hat support / Szulik says buy Windows

I wish Szulik had spoken for RedHat instead of GNU/Linux. It may be 
appropriate for the CEO of a company to say that their distribution is 
not ready yet, but it's inappropriate (at least in my opinion) to say 
that GNU/Linux is not ready.

But the real wound is that... he's right. But telling people to buy 
Windows is, if not inappropriate, irresponsible. He's curtailed the 
other distributions because, apparently, RedHat can't/won't afford the 
free support that they have offered in the past. And what's funniest 
about THAT is what it means:

There are now more desktop loads of RedHat Linux than they can support - 
yet they could in the past. The desktop GNU/Linux market, unbeknowest to 
everyone, seems to have taken off.

And *that* contradicts what Szulik says. Or they're just trying to show 
higher profits.

Looks like Szulik borrowed someone's crack pipe.

Taran

Tom Adelstein wrote:

> It looks like the CEO of RedHat did say it. One would think some 
> shareholders will ask for his business plan. Also, it sounds like a 
> justification rather than good business or marketing intelligence 
> work. This is the CEO of a public company and his main competitor just 
> announced their sell to Novell for 1/4 billion dollars. The competitor 
> sells a professional desktop as does Novell. IBM said they would buy 
> Novell preferred shares. Who has the better track record here?
>
> Here's a url discussing Matthew's statement:
>
>
> http://www.silicon.com/software/os/0,39024651,39116741,00.htm
>