Also they lose visibility. As of today, I tell my customers that we run RedHat Linux on our comms product we make and sell. As of some date RealSoonNow, I'll tell them the same, or something different. Brian Brunner brian.t.brunner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (610)796-5838 >>> kevin@xxxxxxxxxxx 09/24/03 05:52PM >>> This one time, at band camp, Martin Stricker <shugal@xxxxxx> wrote: > I can only hope that Red Hat realizes they'll lose a lot of loyal > long-term customers. If they proceed, they will lose me, and most > probably my company as well. Not only do they lose the customer base, but the customers of those customers. I have many customers I regularly do work for on there redhat servers and desktops. Office firewalls, installing Star Office etc, those customers will be changed over to whatever *nix distribution I choose to go with. Kevin -- ______ (_____ \ _____) ) ____ ____ ____ ____ | ____/ / _ ) / _ | / ___) / _ ) | | ( (/ / ( ( | |( (___ ( (/ / |_| \____) \_||_| \____) \____) Kevin Waterson Port Macquarie, Australia -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list ********************************************************************** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept for the presence of computer viruses. www.hubbell.com - Hubbell Incorporated ********************************************************************** -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list