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DATE | 2003-11-04 |
FROM | Contrarian
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SUBJECT | Re: (fwd) [hangout] Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers
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From owner-hangout-desteny-at-mrbrklyn.com Tue Nov 4 19:19:34 2003 Received: from www2.mrbrklyn.com (LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by mrbrklyn.com (8.12.3/8.11.2/SuSE Linux 8.11.1-0.5) with ESMTP id hA50JY1D013195 for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2003 19:19:34 -0500 Received: (from mdom-at-localhost) by www2.mrbrklyn.com (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id hA50JYUE013194 for hangout-desteny; Tue, 4 Nov 2003 19:19:34 -0500 X-Authentication-Warning: www2.mrbrklyn.com: mdom set sender to owner-hangout-at-www2.mrbrklyn.com using -f Received: from bsd4.nyct.net (mail-out.nyct.net [216.139.141.2]) by mrbrklyn.com (8.12.3/8.11.2/SuSE Linux 8.11.1-0.5) with ESMTP id hA50JY1D013189 for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2003 19:19:34 -0500 Received: from bsd1.nyct.net (bsd1.nyct.net [216.139.147.7]) by bsd4.nyct.net (8.12.8/8.12.5) with ESMTP id hA50OE7t042985; Tue, 4 Nov 2003 19:24:14 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from adrba-at-nyct.net) Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2003 19:24:14 -0500 (EST) From: Contrarian To: Adam Kosmin cc: hangout-at-nylxs.com Subject: Re: (fwd) [hangout] Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers In-Reply-To: <20031105000241.GW14337-at-nephilim> Message-ID: <20031104192204.R83769-at-bsd1.nyct.net> References: <20031105000241.GW14337-at-nephilim> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hangout-at-mrbrklyn.com Precedence: bulk Reply-To: Contrarian List: New Yorker GNU Linux Scene Admin: To unsubscribe send unsubscribe name-at-domian.com in the body to hangout-request-at-www2.mrbrklyn.com X-Keywords: X-UID: 29073 Status: RO X-Status: A Content-Length: 933 Lines: 25
> This is extremely disappointing. High profile persons from Redhat should > not be sending out messages like this since they are in direct conflict > with the goals of the F/OSS movements
Seconded. Abandoning one market/product is one thing. Aid and comfort to the enemy is another. Hmm, will these ppl be at LinuxWorld?
> Matthew Szulik, chief executive of Linux vendor Red Hat, said on Monday that
OK, that's the name.
> Szulik gave an example of his 90-year-old father going to a local retailer > in order to purchase a computer with Linux: "We know painfully well what > happens. He will try to get it installed and either doesn't have a positive > experience or puts a lot of pressure on your support systems," he said.
This is really insulting. ____________________________ NYLXS: New Yorker Free Software Users Scene Fair Use - because it's either fair use or useless.... NYLXS is a trademark of NYLXS, Inc
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