Re: [gentoo-user] WOT:According to SUSE CEO we're not here?

2003-08-23 Thread Stroller
http://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel HTH, Stroller. On Saturday, 23 August 2003, at 12:04 pm, bob bob wrote: I'd be really interested in reading about this.. is the Dev ML archived somewhere I can get to it without having to sign up for the DEV ML ?? Actually, the devs are working

Re: [gentoo-user] WOT:According to SUSE CEO we're not here?

2003-08-23 Thread Alec Berryman
On Sat, 2003-08-23 at 07:11, Jason Stubbs wrote: > I guess you're right, here. In the enterprise, it's "if it is broke, fix as > little as possible", isn't it? What do the commercials do? Backport the > security fixes to previous versions to ensure minimal change? I guess that's > a good thing.

Re: [gentoo-user] WOT:According to SUSE CEO we're not here?

2003-08-23 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Saturday 23 August 2003 19:54, Stroller wrote: > I don't think anyone (or at least many folks) here would argue with the > statement that Gentoo is a wonderful distro, and it's certainly getting > better all the time. But I don't believe that GLEP #14 addresses the > moving-target nature of Gent

Re: [gentoo-user] WOT:According to SUSE CEO we're not here?

2003-08-23 Thread bob bob
I'd be really interested in reading about this.. is the Dev ML archived somewhere I can get to it without having to sign up for the DEV ML ?? "Imagine a school with children that can read and write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we liv

Re: [gentoo-user] WOT:According to SUSE CEO we're not here?

2003-08-23 Thread Stroller
On Saturday, 23 August 2003, at 10:53 am, Jason Stubbs wrote: On Saturday 23 August 2003 18:38, Stroller wrote: I think he's saying Gentoo doesn't exist in terms of outsourceable o/s support contacts. You can buy support from RedHat (and presumably SuSE) that you can't from Gentoo. Gentoo's non-s

Re: [gentoo-user] WOT:According to SUSE CEO we're not here?

2003-08-23 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Saturday 23 August 2003 18:38, Stroller wrote: > On Saturday, 23 August 2003, at 1:24 am, Ernie Schroder wrote: > > SuSE's CEO Richard Seibt chose to demonstrate a high degree of > > arrogance. In response to CRN's question about Windows to Linux > > migration, Seibt insisted that "Linux means t

Re: [gentoo-user] WOT:According to SUSE CEO we're not here?

2003-08-23 Thread Stroller
On Saturday, 23 August 2003, at 1:24 am, Ernie Schroder wrote: SuSE's CEO Richard Seibt chose to demonstrate a high degree of arrogance. In response to CRN's question about Windows to Linux migration, Seibt insisted that "Linux means two companies: Red Hat and SuSE, and nobody else. http://www.dis

Re: [gentoo-user] WOT:According to SUSE CEO we're not here?

2003-08-22 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Saturday 23 August 2003 00:43, Ernie Schroder wrote: > Which he doesn't really have, and shouldn't if any of the recent polls > are considered. SUSE places #6 or 7 in most polls I've seen lately with > about 1/2 the user base of Gentoo. don't mix home-users/enthusiasts with business-users. gen

Re: [gentoo-user] WOT:According to SUSE CEO we're not here?

2003-08-22 Thread Ernie Schroder
Which he doesn't really have, and shouldn't if any of the recent polls are considered. SUSE places #6 or 7 in most polls I've seen lately with about 1/2 the user base of Gentoo. On Friday 22 August 2003 08:36 pm, Alec Berryman wrote: > Just read the slashdot post? ;) If you read the entire thin

Re: [gentoo-user] WOT:According to SUSE CEO we're not here?

2003-08-22 Thread Alec Berryman
Just read the slashdot post? ;) If you read the entire thing, he's just talking about major commercial support. On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 19:24, Ernie Schroder wrote: > SuSE's CEO Richard Seibt chose to demonstrate a high degree of > arrogance. In response to CRN's question about Windows to Linux >

[gentoo-user] WOT:According to SUSE CEO we're not here?

2003-08-22 Thread Ernie Schroder
SuSE's CEO Richard Seibt chose to demonstrate a high degree of arrogance. In response to CRN's question about Windows to Linux migration, Seibt insisted that "Linux means two companies: Red Hat and SuSE, and nobody else. http://www.distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20030818 Is Meister Seibt taki