On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 09:53 -0500, taharka wrote:
OK, that's not really true. Mark is a sharp guy, and gets open
source as
well, indeed, better, than most. But he's completely wrong on his
criticism of Red Hat (which Greg of the Fedora Project shoots down). His
basic point? Because RHEL is a closed binary, it's proprietary.
Full article at,
http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2007/01/ubuntu_founder....
My intelligence just got insulted with that article there. So,
predictably I ranted. I pointed out that rule #1 in Marketing 101 is to
never openly attack your competitor. I have no clue how that man made
his money, it must have been purely by some act of fate or inheritance,
and not by good business skills. I might have decided to give Ubuntu a
whirl, but not now. "Ahh Heyal Nahhh", as we said in Texas. Ric
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