On 2018-10-28 at 23:56:45 ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > On 10/28/18 10:18 PM, Tim via users wrote: > > On Sun, 2018-10-28 at 22:01 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: > >> The reality is, Red Hat is a publicly traded company and there was > >> always a very good chance a big fish was going to come eat it, > >> because it was doing well. Anyway, the ultimate decision now is up to > >> Red Hat shareholders. Why would they say no though? They bought the > >> stock to make money, this is their big pay day. > > > > Ultimately, that's the horrible thing about capitalism. Things only > > exist for monetary reasons, they don't really exist to do what the > > product is for. > > > > And you can say it about anything. e.g. The commercial phone companies > > don't exist for people to be able to communicate (what their customers > > consider their primary purpose to be). They're there to make money and > > it really doesn't care how well the communications aspect of it works. > > "Capitalism" is an insult term made up by Marxists to describe the Free > Market, which is "the free and open exchange of goods and services > between consenting parties". Under the Free Market, to meet your > own needs, you must meet the the needs of your customers. > > Your description of communications customers only caring about money > falls apart. If the service stinks, folks go elsewhere. As a > small businessman, I can tell you that if I do not meet the needs > of my customers, I STARVE. I live it and breath it. I am only > rewarded for meeting my customers needs. > > Red Hat has every right to sell itself to IBM, as Lands' End had every > right to sell itself to Sears. And I have every right to look elsewhere > for someone else that will meet my needs. > > I hope Fedora survives this. If not, someone else will pick up > the slack. +1 -- Erik _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
