On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, Janyne Kizer wrote: > > This is the problem. Red Hat is committed to open source. AOL-Time > Warner is committed to proprietary development. Think AIM and AOL > Keyword and all of the problems that occur on mailing lists (listserv > and majordomo both) every time a new version of AOL comes out. >
That shouldn't be an issue if Red Hat is kept as a subsidiary of AOL or at least as a semi-autonomous company like Netscape. In any case, I'm not saying I'm really excited by the news. All I'm saying is that, given the track record of Red Hat so far I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt. As I said in my original message, if they do something I don't like I will _then_ jump to Debian most likely. In the meantime, all I'll do is _prepare_ for the eventuality. That's all. Let's not forget that Netscape was doomed way before AOL bought it, and they still seem to be supportive of the Mozilla project anyways. Nevertheless, if I see something like what happened in the case of Netscape also happening to Red Hat (i.e. employees fleeing the place), I will then consider switching to another distro. I don't feel any sort of loyalty to any institution (and this includes governments and countries as well), but rather to the people behind them. If knowledgeable Red Hat employees that I respect start leaving the company, I may switch to Debian then. By the way, Slashdot is publishing some comments on Alan Cox's threat to leave Red Hat if they are bought by AOL. http://slashdot.org/articles/02/01/21/1647206.shtml -- Nitebirdz Mozilla--> http://www.mozilla.org Linux XFS--> http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
