binaryfreedom.info — Even though it's a corporation, Red hat has continually placed being a goodmember of the open source community over being one of the corporatecommunity. Let's make sure that everybody at Red Hat knows they have the FULL backing of our community if they stand up to Microsoft's FUD and they they have NO backing from us if they don't.
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nyc2socalJun 18, 2007
I'm sorry.. I disagree.. Most people/companies that move to the Linux on the desktop is because they're tired of paying the extortion fees for Windows/Office. (especially when Open Office is sufficient for 80% of the company).The company I work for, has 3 standard supported desktop images: Windows, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop. I am currently using SLED.. but may switch to RHEL because of Novells stance with Microsoft.
init100Jun 18, 2007
@ChompTheMan"What the hell is the point of fostering distro wars in the GNU/Linux community?"Maybe to make it splinter? You know, there might be corporations with such an interest. :)
init100Jun 18, 2007
@smithpg1002"Dual booting from Windows I wouldn't consider really counting as using Linux."I'd say that it depends. If Windows is your primary operating system and Linux is just booted into once a month, then you could say that you aren't really using Linux. I use Linux for all my computing tasks except playing Windows games. Should my occasional game-playing in Windows make me not count as a Linux user? That would be ridiculous.
init100Jun 18, 2007
In addition, it would give Microsoft additional ammunition in its patent threats against free software. They would claim that Red Hat agrees that Linux is violating Microsoft's patents, and that this is why they signed the agreement.Of course the signing hasn't happened yet, and I don't think it will.
Closed AccountJun 19, 2007
i never wanted to do anything with a linbox