Questioning RH's decisions to remain a viable and independent company?

[Randy Vice]

On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Martin Sturm wrote:

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> I prefer a Linux distribution owning a monopoly on the operation system
> market over Microsoft. A Linux-distro, at least most parts of it, are
> fully open-source, so it is easy to use an alternative-distro or
> operation system because standards, fileformats etc. are open. 
> 
> More interesting: Will Ximian still be available for Red Hat base
> operating systems? Ximian Desktop was already available for SuSE, but i
> can imagen that Ximian will stop supporting Red Hat.

Since we are facing a split between Fedora and RH Enterpise, it wouldn't 
suprise me if they dropped RH Linux.  If they are smart, they would 
support Fedora.  Always keep a open hand towards customers of other 
venders.

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