Re: [Cooker] Redhat 6.1 Lorax is out.

[Jean-Michel Dault]

Yeah, but you still have the choice to say no to Microsoft. Even if they
give you 10 times the salary you're making right now. They can buy your
company, but not your suppliers, employees, customers. And they can't buy
10,000,000 or more Linux users!

Jean-Michel Dault
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Lorne Shantz wrote:

> Jo wrote:
>
> > Buy out? What good would that do? It's the people behind it that make
> > Mandrake what it is. If they buy out the name, I'm convinced these
> > programmers will just start another fork and make that the best distro.
> >
> > Jo
>
> It is the MS way. If you can't make a better product, you buy them out
> and give them all enough money that they can retire and live happily
> ever after. If you can't beat them fair and square, you absorb them.