Fedora Project: Announcing New Direction

[Mark Mielke]

On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 04:44:14PM -0400, snookertb wrote:
> >> ... RedHat is no longer at all anything that I can recommend to
> people to pickup in a store and tryout ...
> ... there goes the ball game. It worked fine as long as you could
> recommend the client pick up a boxed copy and sign up for a RHN
> subscription. Now it looks like all that is left is SUSE, until
> some one else puts a distro on the shelf at Bestbuy(or whatever).

Note, however, that if a majority of RedHat Linux users *did* purchase
the boxed set (as opposed to merely talking about it), RedHat might not
have decided/been_forced_to change their business model...

It isn't that talk is cheap... it is that talk doesn't pay the staff... :-)

mark

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