>When a company issues a new product touting Red Hat Linux support, rest >assured that it is designed to sell more copies of Red Hat and may not >install on any other distro cleanly.
It strikes me that the Red Hat strategy may be to get Linux software released for their platform and not others. The RPM format facilitates this. Eventually they would control GNU/Linux, because "if it doesn't run on Red Hat, it's broken." OTOH, Red Hat does pay the salary for a number of developers releasing software used by the entire LInux community. The compelling advantage of GNU/Linux is the freedom: to use it, customize it, and control your own computer. Red Hat control would remove that advantage. -- ----------------------------------------------------------- Andrew Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----------------------------------------------------------
