On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 05:05, T. Ribbrock wrote: > > http://news.zdnet.co.uk/0,39020330,39117575,00.htm > > "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers" > > <quote> <snip> > </quote> > > Well. I *can* see his point, at least a little bit - but it still > feels strange, this coming from Red Hat. > Anybody else who shares this view? > Other thread was getting to deep and I guess I am taking a different view than most of the others anyway. Quasi random thoughts on the thread. I think it is absolutely the right thing to do/say. It is called integrity. In the long term it will help I believe. A company that is concerned about over promising and under delivering? How can that be a bad thing? The vast majority of windows home users can barely find the on off switch, does not even know what a driver is, let alone how to get one for a piece of hardware, and wants things to simply work. For the most part MS and AOL provide this exceedingly well. Apple does it even better, IMNSHO. If it does not work then "I guess this can't be done" is the response. Of course I have been in hardware driver hell in windows that was as bad as anything I have encountered in linux. What I wish the quote would have said is that until hardware vendors start supporting linux by either opening up their code or writing drivers themselves windows will be be the best choice. THings are improving but obviously there is a ling way to go. A caveat about security would be nice too. Novell/SUSE is very interesting especially since SUSE has such a large european market share. I hope anti-American sentiment does not hurt them in that market. MicroSoft has so thoroughly pissed off the German government that there is probably some baggage associated with an American company buying German SUSE. If played right they can probably leverage this anti MS sentiment while guiding (changed from driving) linux deeper into Corporate Europe and then the home. I believe that focusing on Corporations and education institutions is the way to go to achieve sustainable growth in the home market. Most folks are not going to spend too much time learning a different computing environment than what they use at work or at school, unless the pain of not doing so is too great, and so heading into this market first makes a lot of sense to me. Bret -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
