Hello,
I think that you have made a good point, the other draw on Linux and
RedHat Personal edition is that its free if they start charging money
for the free or stop it altogether they will ultimately hurt themselves.
Cheers,
Aly.
On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 13:13, Joe Polk wrote:
> I think such a move would be foolish. One of the only successful Linux
> companies abandoning (officially) the desktop will only hurt Linux on the
> desktop. I contend that part of Linux' draw is that the desktop
> possibilities are so close that people are tantilized with the possibility of
> it. For RH to drop the desktop completely is to concede the desktop market.
> Ultimately, this will prove to drag out the whole adoption time in general.
>
> <<JAV>>
>
> ---------- Original Message -----------
> From: "Benjamin J. Weiss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 13:09:27 -0500
> Subject: Re: Red Hat 10
>
> > > On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 02:00:04PM -0400, Michael Gargiullo wrote:
> > > > I've heard rumors that RedHat 10 will be the last "desktop" version
> > of
> > > > redhat released. That RedHat is going to support only Advanced
> > Server.
> > > >
> > > > Is there any truth to this?
> > >
> > > Red Hat hasn't announced this, so you won't get confirmation from the
> > > list. Guesses and complaining, yes, facts, no.
> >
> > I certainly hope that it's not true. If it is, I would be moved towards
> > a different flavor of linux. The major reason that my work went with
> > RedHat Advanced Server was my experience with the desktop versions of
> > linux.
> >
> > Come to think of it, if RH drops the desktop linux, maybe we would go
> > with Mac OS X...those new G5's look pretty awesome! :)
> >
> > Ben
> >
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