[NTLUG:Discuss] Bob Young's Statement to Slashdot

[Chris Cox]

I think it speaks for itself....I'm very disappointed.  Basically Bob
sounds like
the problem isn't with what they did in 7.0... the problem is YOU!!

http://slashdot.org/features/00/10/12/163218.shtml

> So if you want to criticise us for shipping gcc 2.96,
> you have every right to do so - you'd be wrong, but it is at least a
                                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> legitimate debate and I'd respect your opinion. But to compare Red Hat
> to Microsoft indicates an ignorance of what is
> driving our success.

...and...

> We may be making mistakes - that up to you to decide. Some of them may be
     ^^^^^^   
> important to you and while I have no doubt you will point them out to us,
> you have control over the technology you are using. We work hard to build
> products that please most of our users most of the time. But if you don't
> like something about Red Hat Linux you don't have to use that feature or
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> function. We simply are not pursing a business model that bears any
> resemblance to Microsoft's, so just quit it. 
> 
> The next slashdotter who compares anything Red Hat does to Microsoft will
> be punished. The punishment will be to find the nearest blackboard and
> write "freedom & personal responsibility good, serfdom & tyrannical
> control bad" seven hundred times.

If I wanted a distribution that requires significant patching (e.g.
getting
to a real version of gcc and possibly recompiling many C++ programs)...
I could get that anywhere...and certainly for cheaper than RH.

People on Slashdot often behave like 4 year olds.... Bob must be a
Slashdotter too!

That's the end for RH in my book....
Chris