I appreciate your concern. Fortunately, the people at Red Hat have a different opinion. I received replies from the right person at Red Hat, as well as pointers to that person, within just 2 hours of my original post. I hope that discussions for something that will be mutually beneficial to BDPA and Red Hat will be taking place starting next week. Just because MS has a relationship with BDPA doesn't mean Red Hat can't or shouldn't. This also isn't a situation where Red Hat and MS need to be in a competition to see who can be bigger with BDPA. The issue is that Linux (and Open Source software in general) needs a strong corporate voice in BDPA and I can't think of a better company to provide that voice than Red Hat. Thanks, by the way, to everyone who responded! You have all been a tremendous help. Cheers, Chris Williams On Fri, 2003-07-11 at 10:24, Gerald Henriksen wrote: > On 11 Jul 2003 07:05:42 -0600, you wrote: > > > > >While the MS deal is nice, Wayne says he is also absolutely willing to > >pursue similar win-win relationships with companies like Red Hat. > > While I understand your desire, my personal feeling is this is a > no-win situation for Red Hat or any other Linux vendor. > > No Linux company (and few others for that matter) have the resources > to take on Microsoft in a spending contest so even attempting to start > is not a wise move. > > Much more effective would be making sure the organization's rules > don't allow one company to "buy off" the organization, and then > continue the traditional grass roots campaign that has worked so well > for Linux. -- ==================================== "If you get to thinkin' you're a person of some influence, try orderin' someone else's dog around." --Cowboy Wisdom
