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I have a funny feeeling about this as well. It's been my experience that when you get a lot of money involved in something, it always changes, and usually for the worse. The stockholders will be asking for things that are good for the COMPANY, not the Linux community.
With this IPO, Red Hat will become more of a name brand with Linux, as they already are. With a name brand, comes power (look at Micros~1). And, of course, power corrupts. Red Hat might add features to it's latest flavor of Linux that will dumb it down completely, or even remove compatibiltity with other flavors of Linux. If there's incompatibility between the flavors, and Red Hat is installed on 8 of 10 of Linux PCs, guess who wins??? Red Hat gets "control" of Linux, as seen from the corporate world, and then Red Hat is another Microsoft, doing what IT thinks is good for Linux (and business), not the Linux community.
But, you yell, Linux is open-source! If they change it too much, we'll protest! We won't use Red Hat! To which I say, Wake up! The corporate world loves name brands, and if Linux takes off in a big way, corporations will use whatever the name brand of Linux is. Yes, their IT professionals will tell them not to use Red Hat because it's not the true Linux, but since when has a PHB listened to his/her IT pros??? So Red Hat BECOMES Linux, and Red Hat then controls future versions of Linux. The Open-source movement dies and armageddon comes.
Ok, maybe I'm being a little too dramatic at the end, but you see my point. I'm probably wrong about this vision of the future, I hope I'm wrong, but it's a vision I can't shake.
There has been so much wibble about mp3 sales... Seems to be such a popular thing for rants, but I still think that lack of convenience will never allow this market to really dominate.
Maybe some enterprising programmers will hack together a nifty easy-for-the-clueless to use frontend that will snarf the MP3s, and burn them to a CD as red book without any additional steps. And possibly even do it for a mass-consumer platform.
That might give this technologies some of the push they need, especially if it was open-source and the online mp3 vendors could happily serve it up.
Well, come on people - lets get organised and get it rolling:)
I wwatch tv while surfing the internet and I'm sure many others do too. So why don't they just advertise on TV and we'd all be happy. I'm used to the tv ads you see.
You have to be joking about Lynx. The WWW is meant to be about multimedia and graphics and stuff like that and Lynx reduces it down to boring plain text. How exciting is that meant to be?
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Posted by MaldaSuX:
Peatsa face
Posted by The Mongolian Barbecue:
your response is as inarticulate as it is incongruous- what does getting paid to write drivers have to do with anything?
Posted by MaldaSuX:
shaadup
Posted by FascDot Killed My Previous Use:
/dev/null.
Pons and Fleichman were fools.
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Posted by Apocalypse29:
I have a funny feeeling about this as well. It's been my experience that when you get a lot of money involved in something, it always changes, and usually for the worse. The stockholders will be asking for things that are good for the COMPANY, not the Linux community.
With this IPO, Red Hat will become more of a name brand with Linux, as they already are. With a name brand, comes power (look at Micros~1). And, of course, power corrupts. Red Hat might add features to it's latest flavor of Linux that will dumb it down completely, or even remove compatibiltity with other flavors of Linux. If there's incompatibility between the flavors, and Red Hat is installed on 8 of 10 of Linux PCs, guess who wins??? Red Hat gets "control" of Linux, as seen from the corporate world, and then Red Hat is another Microsoft, doing what IT thinks is good for Linux (and business), not the Linux community.
But, you yell, Linux is open-source! If they change it too much, we'll protest! We won't use Red Hat! To which I say, Wake up! The corporate world loves name brands, and if Linux takes off in a big way, corporations will use whatever the name brand of Linux is. Yes, their IT professionals will tell them not to use Red Hat because it's not the true Linux, but since when has a PHB listened to his/her IT pros??? So Red Hat BECOMES Linux, and Red Hat then controls future versions of Linux. The Open-source movement dies and armageddon comes.
Ok, maybe I'm being a little too dramatic at the end, but you see my point. I'm probably wrong about this vision of the future, I hope I'm wrong, but it's a vision I can't shake.
Posted by MaldaSuX:
I just hope they retain their functionality after this announcement
Posted by MaldaSuX:
Mark him up a few points. He is right.
Posted by MaldaSuX:
Exactly, a good point.
Posted by MaldaSuX:
Exactly
Posted by MaldaSuX:
Everything shouyld be free
I'm not,paying for anytihng
Posted by Tempt:
... Seems to be such a popular thing for rants, but I still think that lack of convenience will never allow this market to really dominate.
:)
There has been so much wibble about mp3 sales
Maybe some enterprising programmers will hack together a nifty easy-for-the-clueless to use frontend that will snarf the MP3s, and burn them to a CD as red book without any additional steps. And possibly even do it for a mass-consumer platform.
That might give this technologies some of the push they need, especially if it was open-source and the online mp3 vendors could happily serve it up.
Well, come on people - lets get organised and get it rolling
Posted by MaldaSuX:
www.redhat.com is one of the top Linux sites?
Don't you mean one of the top joke sites?
Posted by MaldaSuX:
I wwatch tv while surfing the internet and I'm sure many others do too. So why don't they just advertise on TV and we'd all be happy.
I'm used to the tv ads you see.
Posted by MaldaSuX:
Spot on. I agree totally.
Posted by MaldaSuX:
You have to be joking about Lynx. The WWW is meant to be about multimedia and graphics and stuff like that and Lynx reduces it down to boring plain text. How exciting is that meant to be?
Posted by MaldaSuX:
No I don't shaft sheep!
Please don't ask any more
Posted by MaldaSuX:
No I don't shaft sheep!!!!
Posted by MaldaSuX:
No I don't shaft sheep!..
Posted by MaldaSuX:
No I don't shaft sheep!
So fuck off
Posted by MaldaSuX:
No I don't shaft sheep!!!
Posted by MaldaSuX:
No I don't shaft sheep!!
Posted by MaldaSuX:
No I don't shaft sheep!
Posted by MaldaSuX:
I'll do it but I'm not paying as I could use a perfectly good toilet instead.
Unless you're willing to lick my arse clean afterwards then I'd be willing to pay.
Posted by MaldaSuX:
Personally I love the GOOOOOOGLE thing at the bottom of each search page. It's really cool.
Posted by MaldaSuX:
I boycott what the fuck I want not what you say.
BTW US TV is a heap of shite. It's better in Europe