Keith Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, if Linux is ever going to establish itself as more than a > "hobbie OS", it (the Linux community and the free software community > in general) needs to be able to gracefully withstand a lot more heat > than that article dishes out.
In particular the myth that a "single source of support" is a _good_ thing needs to be dispelled. More often than not this means being shackled to one vendor, and possibly left out in the cold completely if and when that vendor goes under. Also, "heat" is one thing, but disinformation is another. The author of this article proved himself woefully ignorant on several scores: he only mentioned the RedHat and Caldera distributions, and implied that one had to spend $50 to get "good" Linux. He also seems completely unaware that tech support for Linux can be purchased, if a company feels the need for that sort of thing. Finally I would submit that it has long since been the case that Linux is *not* a "hobbie OS," used only geeks and X-Files fans. There is a _tremendous_ amount of commercial c/c++ development going on right now with Linux as the platform of choice. ------------------------------------------------- Bob Bernstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] at Esmond, R.I. http://www.brainiac.com/bernie -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
