Two hands in favor of the statement below. Vic ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Holmes" <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2002 3:07 PM Subject: Re: Will Redhat Become a Division of AOL Time-Warner? > That's what makes competition so important. If AOL buys up Red Hat and > ruins it like they do everything else, Just go to a different distro! > While doing this, those who enjoy using Red Hat's environment should then > write to AOL and tell them how they are switching to a different product. > > I for one, never use anything with AOL in it! I don't like their > proprietary stance on so many things and how they fuck up every computer > their software touches. Case in point, just look at any computer that has > the AOL internet explorer and other components on it. I've talked to > numerous people who installed AOL and how much trouble they had with their > systems and how they couldn't get all the stuff out when trying to remove > AOL. IF Red Hat goes down that path, I wouldn't go near it with a ten > foot pole! > > On Sun, 20 Jan 2002, Charles Crawford wrote: > > > I wish I could be as optimistic. Actually, we will have to demand > > that they keep the command line text runtime or they will simply do the > > migration thing where the GUI is updated and the text is > > forgotten. Witness the disappearance of DOS. > > > > -- Charlie. > > > > >Linux already comes with a GUI, but it can safely be ignored. > > > > > >On Sat, 19 Jan 2002, David Poehlman wrote: > > > > > > > but of course, it won't be accessible because they'll slap a gui on it > > > > and lock it in. > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Speakup mailing list > > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > > >Speakup mailing list > > >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >
