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

[Michael H. Collins]

	Since when is SuSE based on RedHat?


Randall Gibson wrote:
> 
> Hehe, I went through 2 days of AGONY to get Debian installed on my Laptop
> here, even though SuSE did it all in no time flat. Just because SuSE is
> based on Red-Hat. If they could get rpm's to be as easy to work with as
> deb's I wouldnt bother, but you only install once, you have to be able to
> maintain it for a LONG time.
> 
> On Thu, 12 Oct 2000 18:24:09 Chris Cox wrote:
> > 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
> >                                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > > 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
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> >
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