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Red Hat CEO Szulik on Linux Distro Consolidation

Posted by Hemos on from the from-your-first-drawing-breath-to-your-last-dying-day dept.

Rob writes "Red Hat's CEO has rejected the idea that a reduction in the number of Linux distributions would be good for the industry, and described Novell's acquisition of SUSE Linux as "theatre". There are over 300 distributions listed on DistroWatch.com, but Raleigh, North Carolina-based Red Hat's CEO, Matthew Szulik, maintained that choice and specialization outweighed any advantage that might be gained by focusing customer attention on a smaller number of offerings. He was particularly disdainful of acquiring other distributions for the sake of protecting or expanding market share. "We have zero ambition to do that," he said. "I think when people approach the problem with an eye on consolidation it destroys the idea of natural selection.""

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  1. Oh no... by vmcto · · Score: 5, Funny

    Natural Selection vs. Intelligent Design

    The debate rages on...

    1. Re:Oh no... by Travoltus · · Score: 3, Funny

      Does natural selection not lead to intelligent design? :)

      --
      --- Grow a pair, liberals... stop letting the Republicans bully you!
    2. Re:Oh no... by alan_dershowitz · · Score: 2, Funny

      You missed the point. Flying Spaghetti monster IS "intelligent design". The difference between ID and creationism is that in ID we "don't know" who did the designing. That's where FSM comes in. Since we don't know, you can't disprove it!

      Personally, I like to think the connection here is Richard Stallman: I have been touched by his GNU-dly appendage. hallelujah and pass the soap.

  2. Re:Natural Selection by bach37 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Not intelligent design?

    /end sarcasm