If WindowsWhatever gets better (stay with me folks, I'm just being hypothetical here); if it gets more stable, less bloated, more standards-compliant, more cross-platform friendly, it will only do so because of the challenge presented (primarily) by Linux.
The important word in this post is "most". There are exceptions to the pure bottom-line profit motive.
So far, RH has proven that it's not like other companies. While going public would be frought with danger, there's no reason that RH can't remain committed to OSS. OSS has been extremely good for RH... I'm hoping they'll remember that, whatever they do.
BTW, let's not forget that this isn't really even a rumor... no one with any inside knowledge has been cited. It's just one reporter's speculation based on a personnel change in the company.
Right. If the author (parodist?) had drawn his own characters (maybe a bunch of bunnies) and given them the exact same words, the humor --or lack thereof-- whould have been exactly the same. As it is, he was just using the Dilbert artwork as a backdrop for his seemingly random spewage of dirty words. Nothing in the Dilbert Hole parodied the Dilbert strip, its characters, or its primary subject matter (corporate idiocy).
If you're going to use offensive language, at least let it serve some purpose. And no, some vague notion of "Free Speech" is not a worthy purpose, IMHO.
Also IMHO, the Dilbert Hole was singularly, profoundly unfunny. I found more humor (albeit bittersweet) in the death of my pet lovebird.
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So far, RH has proven that it's not like other companies. While going public would be frought with danger, there's no reason that RH can't remain committed to OSS. OSS has been extremely good for RH... I'm hoping they'll remember that, whatever they do.
BTW, let's not forget that this isn't really even a rumor... no one with any inside knowledge has been cited. It's just one reporter's speculation based on a personnel change in the company.
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Glad to see you kicked the habit. That NT stuff can really whack out your brain.
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If you're going to use offensive language, at least let it serve some purpose. And no, some vague notion of "Free Speech" is not a worthy purpose, IMHO.
Also IMHO, the Dilbert Hole was singularly, profoundly unfunny. I found more humor (albeit bittersweet) in the death of my pet lovebird.
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