Be Careful What You "Believe"

[Mark C. Allman]

On Sun, 2008-04-27 at 10:42 -0700, Paul Shaffer wrote:
> >Guess how much of that $45 billion is related to consumer desktops, and
> you'll see how irrelevant this debate really is.
> 
> Funny you cite numbers like $45B in a discussion about Fedora.  It seems rather specious to make such remarks with a Redhat market cap of about $4B and revenues amounting to a paltry $76M.  That shows you just how irelevant Redhat is.  And getting more so every day.
> 
> You true believers in the one pure Linux should get your numbers straight before attempting to ply the ignorant society and lazy users with market-based numbers to support of your OS strategy delusion. 
> 
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This looks like an argument spilling over onto this list.  Please,
please, please do not start a flame war, argument, debate, or whatever
you want to call it here.

Please.

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