Hello Davide,
You know, this is a much heard "con" against Linux/GNU from the
MS-community: they constantly try to have their -potential- customers
imagine us as "wild-hackers" without any fundamental social skills that
are only into two things: bashing MS and trying to compete
AGAINST eachother. While I don't think there's anything wrong with the
first one, I'm afraid they have a point in the second one.
Combined forces -if professionally marketed- could eventually bring
Gates Inc. to it's knees (for example: think about the web-server
market: where IS Microsoft going today?). What RH did with 5.0 f.e.
shows that a distributor actually CAN build an easy to implement,
reliabe
product, WITH good tech-support and WITHOUT any MS-like arrogancy. When
combined with the Metro server you have one hell of a
product. So I guess you're right in a way: when RH teams up with the
others in some areas, Redmond will definately have a problem
on the File/Print/Webserver market. On the other hand, competence
between suppliers has resulted in some great software in the past,
so -IMHO- a partial cooperation might work best.
Arjan Aelmans
The Netherlands
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>From: Davide Bolcioni[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: vrijdag 13 maart 1998 10:06
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Cc: The recipient's address is unknown.; LOCAL
>Subject: (somewhat off-topic) A house divided ?
>
>Hello list,
> writing from Italy, where Linux users are rare and far away and Microsoft
>rules (or so it seems to me; I am the same person who started the "show off
>Linux ?" thread some time ago, and I must say that the situation has not
>improved in the least).
> I was wondering if somebody would care to share their opinions about the
>following issues who have been nagging at me for some time, probably
>because of my little knowledge of the big world:
>- why do we have *several* different Linux distributions ?
>- why do we have competent people, like RedHat and SUSE, tied up in
>catching the same bugs twice instead of cooperating (agreements would be
>for profit, of course) ?
>- why do we have an (apparently) good bug-tracking system like Debian's
>completely ignored by the above (instead of exploited, i.e. paid for) ?
>
>I realize that the Unix community at large *likes* to reinvent wheels now
>and then, but what I was wondering is whether getting some agreement on who
>reinvents which wheel would help in achieving world domination.
>
>By the way, if you feel this is too much off topic for this list I
>apologize and welcome any suggestions for a more appropriate place.
>
>
>Davide Bolcioni
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