RE: [newbie] Redhat = traitors???

2003-11-04 Thread Grant
Read the excerpt, follow the link for the complete story: Red Hat's chief executive has said that Linux needs to mature further before home users will get a positive experience from the operating system, saying they should choose Windows instead... Matthew Szulik, chief

RE: [newbie] Redhat = traitors???

2003-11-04 Thread Aronsmith
On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 11:53, Grant wrote: Read the excerpt, follow the link for the complete story: Red Hat's chief executive has said that Linux needs to mature further before home users will get a positive experience from the operating system, saying they should choose

RE: [newbie] Redhat = traitors???

2003-11-04 Thread Mark Kirschner
Ronald J. Hall said: Read the excerpt, follow the link for the complete story: Red Hat's chief executive has said that Linux needs to mature further before home users will get a positive experience from the operating system, saying they should choose Windows instead... Matthew Szulik,

Re: [newbie] Redhat = traitors???

2003-11-04 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday 04 November 2003 01:53 pm, Grant wrote: Read the excerpt, follow the link for the complete story: Red Hat's chief executive has said that Linux needs to mature further before home users will get a positive experience from the operating system, saying they should choose

Re: [newbie] Redhat = traitors???

2003-11-04 Thread robin
Aronsmith wrote: On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 11:53, Grant wrote: Read the excerpt, follow the link for the complete story: Red Hat's chief executive has said that Linux needs to mature further before home users will get a positive experience from the operating system, saying they should choose

Re: [newbie] Redhat = traitors???

2003-11-04 Thread LtCdData
its no surprise comming form redhat... which is stopping next year to become redhat enterprise leaving the gpl to be experimental stuff to its new name of fedora On Tuesday 04 Nov 2003 H:00, robin wrote: Aronsmith wrote: On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 11:53, Grant wrote: Read the excerpt, follow

Re: [newbie] Redhat = traitors???

2003-11-04 Thread Anarky
Mark Kirschner wrote: I think that some statements made in the article are right on. Now, don't shoot me for saying that. In the time since I started hearing about Linux (summer, '95) until I really took the plunge and started working with it (about a month or so ago), I have heard and read

Re: [newbie] Redhat = traitors???

2003-11-04 Thread HaywireMac
On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 14:47:56 -0600 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I do. Most all current home desktop users, windoze users should stay right where they are. Most aren't even aware of 'hardware' issues on anything but Winsux (ie, proprietary, or winhardware). How many times do

Re: [newbie] Redhat = traitors???

2003-11-04 Thread Walt Frampus
On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 14:49, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Read the excerpt, follow the link for the complete story: Red Hat's chief executive has said that Linux needs to mature further before home users will get a positive experience from the operating system, saying they should choose

Re: [newbie] Redhat = traitors???

2003-11-04 Thread Aronsmith
On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 13:00, robin wrote: Aronsmith wrote: On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 11:53, Grant wrote: Read the excerpt, follow the link for the complete story: Red Hat's chief executive has said that Linux needs to mature further before home users will get a positive experience

Re: [newbie] Redhat = traitors???

2003-11-04 Thread Aronsmith
On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 14:10, HaywireMac wrote: On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 14:47:56 -0600 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I do. Most all current home desktop users, windoze users should stay right where they are. Most aren't even aware of 'hardware' issues on anything but Winsux

Re: [newbie] Redhat = traitors???

2003-11-04 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ronald J. Hall wrote: Read the excerpt, follow the link for the complete story: Spot on! My 2 cents worth- the greatest impediments to broad acceptance of Linux are *)a lack of readable instruction material, *)problematic configuration issues, especially in relation to networking and graphic

Re: [newbie] Redhat = traitors???

2003-11-04 Thread Harv Nelson
Aronsmith wrote: On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 14:10, HaywireMac wrote: On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 14:47:56 -0600 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I do. Most all current home desktop users, windoze users should stay right where they are. Most aren't even aware of 'hardware' issues on anything