Excellent point! My earlier point, Brett, was that I don't think RH has ever been *that* interested in the desktop. Corp. desktop, maybe, but not end users. They've made statements close to this before, just never so blatent. I love RH. I BUY RH. I've been hoping they would take even more interest in the desktop but they have been moving away from it for quite some time. My point is, they aren't simply conceding that THEY have work to do, they are rather repeating their concession that they don't want to compete in the larger market of the end user. Something they've been hinting to for years. So there's no noble statement of "we honestly have tried, but must admit we have more work to do." It's more like "you know what, we've been slowly focusing on the enterprise and frankly there's just too much work to do in the end user market. Besides, Windows has that locked up for awhile." What sucks is, RH will benefit from the community at large bringing Linux further into the end user market. They will pick up that work and move back when that happens. In the meantime, they will simply wait and see, rather than lead. Maybe they are doing this to survive, but don't expect us to think them noble for it. <<JAV>> ---------- Original Message ----------- From: Dave Ihnat <ignatz@xxxxxxxxxx> To: redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tue, 4 Nov 2003 17:39:15 -0600 Subject: Re: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers" > On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 05:32:57PM -0600, Bret Hughes wrote: > > How can you say that? Did I miss a memo? Have you been sitting in the > > strategy planning meetings with Young et. al.? (and so on...) > > Easy, now. I think the meaning is that, even if RedHat doesn't > intend/want to compete in this segment, handing Microsoft a weapon like > this isn't in anyone's best interests; it'd have been better to say > nothing at all. You *know* Microsoft will take parts of the > statement out of context and will trumpet this to the heavens. > > > Most people will never even know that the comment was made and therefore > > will not decide one way or another based on it. > > Oh, I think Microsoft will make da*n certain that most people see > some form of this comment... > > Cheers, > -- > Dave Ihnat > ignatz@xxxxxxxxxx > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list ------- End of Original Message ------- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
