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DATE | 2003-11-18 |
FROM | Ruben I Safir
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SUBJECT | Subject: [hangout] Re: Summit wiki.
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From owner-hangout-desteny-at-mrbrklyn.com Tue Nov 18 02:17:43 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 hAI7Hgjk005801 for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2003 02:17:42 -0500 Received: (from mdom-at-localhost) by www2.mrbrklyn.com (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id hAI7Hgej005800 for hangout-desteny; Tue, 18 Nov 2003 02:17:42 -0500 X-Authentication-Warning: www2.mrbrklyn.com: mdom set sender to owner-hangout-at-www2.mrbrklyn.com using -f 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 hAI7Hdjk005793; Tue, 18 Nov 2003 02:17:39 -0500 Received: (from ruben-at-localhost) by www2.mrbrklyn.com (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id hAI7Hdaq005792; Tue, 18 Nov 2003 02:17:39 -0500 Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 02:17:39 -0500 From: Ruben I Safir To: Jonathan Blandford Cc: Nat Friedman , Ruben I Safir , ten-at-gnome.org, Luis Villa , hangout-at-nylxs.com Subject: [hangout] Re: Summit wiki. Message-ID: <20031118021739.K5010-at-www2.mrbrklyn.com> References: <1067915104.7712.562.camel-at-gargantuan.boston.ximian.com> <20031107164059.GA9526-at-www2.mrbrklyn.com> <1069131832.4396.835.camel-at-gargantuan.boston.ximian.com> <20031118002839.A3762-at-www2.mrbrklyn.com> <1069135195.4397.966.camel-at-gargantuan.boston.ximian.com> <20031118005952.C4408-at-www2.mrbrklyn.com> <1069135791.4394.998.camel-at-gargantuan.boston.ximian.com> <20031118012140.C4617-at-www2.mrbrklyn.com> <1069137564.4397.1083.camel-at-gargantuan.boston.ximian.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 In-Reply-To: ; from jrb-at-redhat.com on Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 01:55:56 -0500 X-Mailer: Balsa 1.2.3 Sender: owner-hangout-at-mrbrklyn.com Precedence: bulk Reply-To: Ruben I Safir 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: 29377 Status: RO Content-Length: 2255 Lines: 50
BTW - I didn't use that title :ie Red Hat recommends Windows (or did I? Let me look).
In any event, it's hard to mince the worlds and I've heard this repeatedly over the last few years, from people at IBM, RedHat, Tony Stanco, and at LUG Meetings. It's a HUGE problem for 2 reasons. First, everytime someone runs off with their mouth like that, they literally cost well deserving, hard working Free Software businesses dinner money.
Can you Imagine an employee for Microsoft coming out and saying, Hey our desktop is not really ready for the modern computer yet, and is virus plaqued. You should use Evolution instead of Outlook.
Secondly, it's just not true, and I have 6 kids who use the GNOME Desktop EVERY DAY, and an 86 year old grandmother, and a half dozen small businesses.
On 2003.11.18 01:55 Jonathan Blandford wrote: > Nat Friedman writes: > > > > > * The schedule that you put together included a talk title that > > > > wrongly insults one of GNOME's best sponsors, Red Hat. > > > > > > > > > > Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers > > > > Fine, please make sure that title isn't used. > > For what it's worth, Matthew was pretty badly misinterpreted by that > reporter. His attempts to set realistic expectations were spun into a > soundbite. Red Hat believes _very_ strongly in the Linux desktop, and > has been a huge supporter of GNOME for a long long time. > > One of the really exciting bits about this Summit is that it's going to > give us a chance to figure out exactly how to achieve that last mile. > > Thanks, > -Jonathan > -- __________________________ Brooklyn Linux Solutions __________________________ DRM is THEFT - We are the STAKEHOLDERS http://fairuse.nylxs.com
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