On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 09:53 -0500, taharka wrote: > OK, that's not really true. Mark is a sharp guy, and gets open source as > well, indeed, better, than most. But he's completely wrong on his > criticism of Red Hat (which Greg of the Fedora Project shoots down). His > basic point? Because RHEL is a closed binary, it's proprietary. > > Full article at, > http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2007/01/ubuntu_founder.html My intelligence just got insulted with that article there. So, predictably I ranted. I pointed out that rule #1 in Marketing 101 is to never openly attack your competitor. I have no clue how that man made his money, it must have been purely by some act of fate or inheritance, and not by good business skills. I might have decided to give Ubuntu a whirl, but not now. "Ahh Heyal Nahhh", as we said in Texas. Ric -- ================================================ My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar http://www.wayward4now.net ================================================
