[olug] Good for Redhat

[Sam Tetherow]

Amen to that brother!

Although I don't like RedHat personally (as a distro) and while the 
Debian remark strikes close to home, it is pretty damned funny.


neal rauhauser wrote:
> 
> 
>    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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