While I would agree with what most have been saying, namely that RH can do whatever they damn well pleases, I don't necessarily like the trend. Caldera has consistently alienated the Linux community starting with tactics much like this. I used Caldera back in the day and loved it. But they didn't seem interested in the end user, unless you were an end user at a big company. I'm not saying this is the direction that RH is going, but they have taken some steps down that road. Let's hope they can see where at leads WITHOUT having to tread the entire length. Again, they can do what they please but that doesn't mean there aren't consequences. The consequences here could very well be a disgruntled user base that simply goes elsewhere. While they won't hurt the existing base of corporate users right now, it will keep people from suggesting RH in the future which ultimately will hurt them. This may be the marketing dept's fault. Perhaps that's what makes it so sour. Marketing reps are the business version of lawyers. The more you hang around them, the more dirty you feel. Video killed the radio star and marketing reps spoiled our little party we call Information Technology. On the other hand, they also indirectly feed and clothe us.
<<JAV>> On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 16:29, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 07:52, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > this whole thing was really poorly done. > > > > rday > > Yet another reason why my business, and myself are being pushed away by > the whole "new" direction that RedHat has gone in. Sadly, after nearly > ten years of "sticking" to RedHat, I'm going to have to divert my > interests to another distribution that isn't going to follow in the > footsteps of the larger looming monsters such as Microsoft and IBM. > Bouncing versions like this, especially after pushing the version 8.1 > idea for so long, is more than poorly done - it's as though the > principle behind the versioning scheme has been thrown out of the window > altogether without thinking of the long term effects on the people that > have come to depend on them - and in thinking that users/sellers of > systems with 7.2/7.3 versions are going to be literally out on the > streets with this version change, they're making for some really bad > business karma. > > I fear that RedHat, IF this move goes through, which I'm sure it is now, > is going to cause quite a ripple throughout the overall RedHat > community; and if the entire ploy is aimed at "Big Business" and > commercial services, they're certainly going to find out that some folks > are going to opt for a different distribution instead of fighting the > "version is now outdated" trap. > > IMHO this is - but I'm not going to chuck more money down the drain for > a distro I've started to not like or trust. And it really sucks that > after all these years, I'm starting to "not trust" RedHat. > > -- > Tue Mar 25 08:20:00 EST 2003 > 08:20:00 up 3 days, 19:07, 4 users, load average: 0.06, 0.16, 0.15 > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > | __ __ | kuhn media australia | > | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | > | .\__/ || | | |=================================| > | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn | > | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | > | |/ ._/ |"""""""""| | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | > | |'. `\ | | | icq: 5483808 | > | ;"""/ / | | | | > | smk ) /_/| |.-------.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | > | ' `-`' " " | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > linux user:267497 * MDK 9.1 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting > machine no:194239 * RH 7.3 * Sales - Service - Support - Tutor > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** > > People who develop the habit of thinking of themselves as world > citizens are fulfilling the first requirement of sanity in our time. > -- Norman Cousins > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
