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Ubuntu to Bring About Red Hat's Demise?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the straight-from-the-tea-leaves dept.

Tony Mobily has written a thought-provoking editorial for Free Software Magazine that makes the bold prediction of Red Hat's eventual demise at the hands of Mark Shuttleworth and Ubuntu. Calling on memories of Red Hat alienating their desktop user base to focus on their corporate customers and making money, Mobily states that many of those alienated desktop users are also system administrators who now feel more comfortable with Ubuntu and will make the choice to use Ubuntu Server over Red Hat now and in the future.

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  1. What the fuck is an Ubuntu ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    What the fuck is an Ubuntu ? I can take it.

  2. Watch out for the author of this article by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Take every word this Tony Mobily says with a big pinch of salt. Not only is he an Ubuntu shill but he also has received huge tax free "gifts" personally from Mike Shuttleworth.

    He also doesn't mention the real reason for this article: His demise from Red Hat. Tony Mobily used to be a one of Red Hat's young star developers and was eventually given control over a small team. Abusing his power, he set about creating a long line of redundant, bloated and essentially useless features - the most prominent being RHIcons (An icon generating algorithm which required at least 1024mb of free system RAM to run).

    Finally after Redhat became wise to the situation with Mobily, he was fired and moved over to supporting the "opposition": Ubuntu. In closing, would you trust an article written by a convicted homosexual, as Tony Mobily is? I certainly wouldn't.

  3. Re:Distro de jour by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Gentoo never had a chance at stealing market share, the last real contenders were SuSE and Mandrake/Mandriva.