"R. Jay Campbell" wrote:
> Just like there's still RedHat, Mandrake, Debian, SuSe,...
Didn't SuSE just fire all their US staff and shut their sales offices?
> Imagine how screwed you would be if you depended on a
> certain 800 pound gorilla for your software, and IT went belly up! (or changed
> it's business model, or did 100 other things to screw it's customers...;-)
Yep - exactly. Mr Gates has been saying that he'd like to lease software to
end-users for a monthly fee...and with Windoze XP, it looks like he's finally
putting that wish into action. <shudder>
So long as there are still users and developers, there will be Linux.
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