I don't have a problem with charging for it. I generally buy RH in retail boxes, which they've stopped selling. I own their stock and generally believe in what they are doing. Their recent decision to stop selling retail box sets disappointed me. If they abandon the desktop completely, then their committment to Linux in general, in my mind, will be called into question. If all you're concerned about is the enterprise, then you are only interested in making money where the trend is now. When the trend goes desktop, then will you jump in? You have a chance to help spearhead that market instead of follow. Do I want to put my confidence in a follower? Let's hope this rumor is just that, a rumor. I love RH. I believe in them. I don't want anything to shake that but that's not to say it can't happen or won't.
<<JAV>> ---------- Original Message ----------- From: Aly Dharshi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 30 Jul 2003 13:25:03 -0600 Subject: Re: Red Hat 10 > Hello, > > I think that you have made a good point, the other draw on Linux and > RedHat Personal edition is that its free if they start charging money > for the free or stop it altogether they will ultimately hurt themselves. > > Cheers, > > Aly. > > On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 13:13, Joe Polk wrote: > > I think such a move would be foolish. One of the only successful Linux > > companies abandoning (officially) the desktop will only hurt Linux on the > > desktop. I contend that part of Linux' draw is that the desktop > > possibilities are so close that people are tantilized with the possibility of > > it. For RH to drop the desktop completely is to concede the desktop market. > > Ultimately, this will prove to drag out the whole adoption time in general. > > > > <<JAV>> > > > > ---------- Original Message ----------- > > From: "Benjamin J. Weiss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 13:09:27 -0500 > > Subject: Re: Red Hat 10 > > > > > > On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 02:00:04PM -0400, Michael Gargiullo wrote: > > > > > I've heard rumors that RedHat 10 will be the last "desktop" version > > > of > > > > > redhat released. That RedHat is going to support only Advanced > > > Server. > > > > > > > > > > Is there any truth to this? > > > > > > > > Red Hat hasn't announced this, so you won't get confirmation from the > > > > list. Guesses and complaining, yes, facts, no. > > > > > > I certainly hope that it's not true. If it is, I would be moved towards > > > a different flavor of linux. The major reason that my work went with > > > RedHat Advanced Server was my experience with the desktop versions of > > > linux. > > > > > > Come to think of it, if RH drops the desktop linux, maybe we would go > > > with Mac OS X...those new G5's look pretty awesome! :) > > > > > > Ben > > > > > > -- > > > redhat-list mailing list > > > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > ------- End of Original Message ------- > -- > Aly S.P Dharshi > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Research Programmer/System Administrator > Southern Alberta Digital Library Project > University of Lethbridge > > "A good speech is like a good dress > that's short enough to be interesting > and long enough to cover the subject" > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list ------- End of Original Message ------- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
