On Mon, 13 Nov 2006 20:01:19 +0000, Tim Smith wrote:
> On 2006-11-13, Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> How Red Hat Lost Friends And Gained New Enemies
>>
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>>| However, Oracle's plan to offer customers its own bug fixes to
>>| the Linux kernel is troubling. Instead of waiting for Linux
>>| kernel maintainer Andrew Morton to collect the latest
>>| improvements and bug fixes into a formal release for all
>>| distributions, Oracle could create the equivalent of ap
>>| roprietary operating system. The history of Unix tells
>>| us that's a bad idea, as a "forking" of the kernel locks
>>| customers into whichever variant they'd bought, with
>>| little incentive to switch even if they found a better
>>| offering.
>> `----
>
> I thought this was called "choice" and was good?
It's only called choice when it fits into the warped world of the Linux
loonie.
Notice how they are mobilizing to shun Novell /Suse and now they are going
to do the same to whomever doesn't fit into their idea of what Linux
should be.
No wonder Linux is failing.
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