Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 13:03:11 -0700 From: "David Schwartz" <davids@webmaster.com> To: "Brett Glass" <brett@lariat.org> Cc: <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Free VMWare and open BIOS! Message-ID: <001301bea232$9f0d0e10$021d85d1@whenever.youwant.to> In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.37.19990519133227.045d7cb0@localhost>
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RedHat has pegged its commercial success to Linux in the same way that Microsoft has pegged its commercial success to NT. Each company will ride its horse for as long as it can make money doing so. Then it will either change horses (as Apple did), or leave the race (as IBM did). This isn't malice or ignorance. It's simply each company offering the products and business model that it thinks people want. DS > Red Hat simply values short term gain to such an extent that it > ignores the > negative long term consequences of the GPL. (To put it succinctly: Never > assume malice when ignorance will do. It's the GPL that was motivated by > malice, not Red Hat.) > > Right now, Red Hat's success is fueled largely by Linux fanaticism. But > its misguided support of the GPL will hurt all of us. > > --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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