On Thu, 2011-05-19 at 13:25 +0000, Ben Taylor wrote: > On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 11:23 AM, Apostolos Syropoulos > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > Hello, > > > > I have read the following > > > > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTQ1Nw > > > > > > Are they serious? I think we should seriously consider abandoning GNOME > > and replace it with KDE. > > > > A.S. > > Think a Redhat guy might have an axe to grind with Oracle, given the most > recent > attempts by the RH kernel to stiffle by ofuscation the changes they > made to RH kernel > to prevent Oracle from bundling up the changes in their unbreakable product.
Yeah, RH sucks. Following the demise of OpenSolaris and a free to use Solaris 10 as potential contenders, however, RHEL is rapidly becoming the defacto standard in the Enterprise. So much so that they've been able to at least double, if not triple, their support contract fees in the past two years. Still, this is about 1/4 of Oracle support fee so where are enterprises heading, especially in a tough economy where shareholders are looking closely at corporate budgets? Been a big boon for RH. > > It really is the antithesis of open source. hope he chokes on his > triple expresso. Unfortunately all too many have an axe to grind with Oracle. Hence, present audience excepted, many Penguinistas will likely be open to his arguments, if not outright supportive. Especially sycophants hoping to be hired by RH. Moreover, don't forget RH's deep roots with Gnome, as in addition to paid developers, they also sponsor the website, major bandwidth, and other infrastructure. Bottom line is that I wouldn't blow this off as non trivial threat to the future portability of Gnome. _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
