On 12/12/17 02:25 AM, Lars Noodén wrote:
Yet, as is their habit, their response is to go ad hominem rather than address the points made. Money is a great motivator for company managers, especially at the C level. M$ pointed out ages, albeit inadvertently via leaked documents, that any company that can grab hold of "Linux" and make it effectively proprietary can lock up the market. Specifically I mean the Halloween Documents which have turned out to be quite accurate. So as to following the money trail, it looks like Red Hat is using the strategy and goal lined up in the first Halloween Document. So, if nothing else, Devuan is important in that it prevents Red Hat from decommoditizing Linux completely. Unfortunately that also makes Devuan very visible to opponents of general purpose computing.
I read this the other day and it made me think of systemd phenomena. https://boingboing.net/2017/12/06/the-unknown-unknowns.html Clarke _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
