[olug] Good for Redhat

[neal rauhauser]

    Redhat is going to be requiring payment for all services rendered - 
you buy the OS, you buy support, etc. They've got name brand recognition 
like no one else, they've worked the system down to the point where they 
get recurring revenues and the PHBs see business continuity that can be 
made to depend on a company, rather than on the goodwill of a few *nix 
geniuses.

    This is all Very Very Good(tm) - the griping I hear reminds me of 
when the internet started going commercial in the mid 1990s - its going 
to create *jobs* working on an operating system that Does Not Suck(tm). 
You're free to sell all of your possesions except a laptop and camp in a 
city park somewhere  in your official Debian tent begging alms for your 
open source goodness, but 99.44% of the world is not of the religious 
zealot variety and will take to the world Redhat is providing. Yes, it 
can be improved upon (ahem, FreeBSD :-)), but it is soooooo much nicer 
than babysitting a collection of Windows stuff that requires a rebuild 
every time you test a new package.

   Progress, not perfection! And RPM + /etc is bigtime progress over 
Windows and the registry hell hole ...


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