1. all i hear is "red hat sucks", "fuck dead rat", etc, etc....whoa, but they turn a profit and everyone is all "awww i knew they could do it!" and "viva la red hat!". what a load of bullshit.
2. personally, i think that red hat had better keep up whatever voodoo magic they've been doing so the next several years come out "positive" for them too ($600,000 in net income is hardly going to topple microsoft). so far red hat is basically the *only* free software company to go anywhere. is it a fluke? yeah, i sorta think so. i don't think free software is a very viable market to get into. oh well, prove me wrong.
Sure some Linux companies are failing right now. So are a shitload of non-linux companies.
name ONE linux-centric company that will still be around in 5 years, besides redhat. i can't really think of any.
Redhat's breaking even and I can see them being profitable. IBM likes Linux because it makes them money through hardware sales and services.
redhat is breaking even, but they are the fluke of the whole thing. the difference between them and IBM is that IBM has a stake in something besides linux, that actually is profitable. IBM also has loads of money to throw at a linux venture, and if it fails, oh well. it's not like they're gonna go under.
with the linux/opensource start-ups, who base their entire biz around linux, this is not so. they will eventually go broke because you can't get buy on selling tshirts and coffee mugs while your developers work for $$$ and give it all away. it just doesn't work that way.
you can expect diablo and black and white for linux in about 2 years, when everyone has played them and they're not so hot....if loki survives that long
For once, Linux users have a leg up on the Win32 guys.
uh no becuz these are games that came out well over a year ago, some even longer, and have now been thrown in the bargain bin. there is certainly no "leg up".
the critical dates link is kinda neat, take a look at how occasionally dates and weeks were just "removed" from the calendar, even in fairly recent times....i like the last entry especially:)
this also reminds me of a story several months ago about a new proposal for a calendar, with 10 day weeks, etc...
do we really need a new system of recording dates? i know this would pretty hard to sell to the public
don't get me wrong, i like mozilla. i like the ideas behind it, and the fact that it's nice and open....but until it gets past being as slow as my shit after 6 bottles of spray cheese and ritz crackers, it's useless to me, and probably most other people
totally ignoring the other myriad obstacles linux has to get thru before it becomes a truly viable desktop operating system for the masses, the need for a fast, lightweight web browser is vital...still, even with it's non-standardness and annoying quirks, internet explorer beats the hell out of the competition
this is a company who has, since it's inception, sold only proprietary software and hardware, and now they're opening up to new ideas and giving you the software. do you need approval from RMS and the FSF to wipe your ass, too?
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with slack, i just get a nice
i'll take simplicity over outdatedness and bloat
just my $0.02
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2. personally, i think that red hat had better keep up whatever voodoo magic they've been doing so the next several years come out "positive" for them too ($600,000 in net income is hardly going to topple microsoft). so far red hat is basically the *only* free software company to go anywhere. is it a fluke? yeah, i sorta think so. i don't think free software is a very viable market to get into. oh well, prove me wrong.
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name ONE linux-centric company that will still be around in 5 years, besides redhat. i can't really think of any.
Redhat's breaking even and I can see them being profitable. IBM likes Linux because it makes them money through hardware sales and services.redhat is breaking even, but they are the fluke of the whole thing. the difference between them and IBM is that IBM has a stake in something besides linux, that actually is profitable. IBM also has loads of money to throw at a linux venture, and if it fails, oh well. it's not like they're gonna go under.
with the linux/opensource start-ups, who base their entire biz around linux, this is not so. they will eventually go broke because you can't get buy on selling tshirts and coffee mugs while your developers work for $$$ and give it all away. it just doesn't work that way.
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this also reminds me of a story several months ago about a new proposal for a calendar, with 10 day weeks, etc...
do we really need a new system of recording dates? i know this would pretty hard to sell to the public
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totally ignoring the other myriad obstacles linux has to get thru before it becomes a truly viable desktop operating system for the masses, the need for a fast, lightweight web browser is vital...still, even with it's non-standardness and annoying quirks, internet explorer beats the hell out of the competition
my $0.02, flame away
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i wasn't even walking then, but i'm pretty sure you're right about the apple 1 being sold with schematics
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...and you can send them a reality check too, cuz gnutella gets slower and slower with every overrated slashdot post about it.
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