> Writing on the wall? Please. Fear all you like... you are still just > guessing at the future, same way everyone else is, and there is NOTHING > that makes your vision of the future more credible than anyone else's: not > your claim that "many people" share your opinion, not the "writing on the > wall" cliché subtly connoting hard evidence. Nothing. > > Just as with people, you generally get to know corporations and can > judge/predict their behavior over time. And while you have chosen to fear > Red Hat (certainly a valid choice and one which it is your privilege to > make), the behavior _I_ see is that of a company concerned with turning a > profit and staying in business while continuing to contribute to their > community as much as possible and serving as many users as possible with > the best Linux software possible. > > I do not claim Red Hat is perfect nor will I postulate Matthew Szulik for > sainthood, but overall, I am extremely pleased with the Red Hat I have > known for the last few years. That company (and there have been no recent > important changes in staff which could indicate a change of behavior) would > never purposely leave me out in the cold unless there was no way in hell > they could sustainably maintain a "going concern" of Red Hat, Inc. I trust > that they will put lots of effort into Fedora, and that Fedora is going to > be even better for me than RHL was (yes, that means I trust that we will > somehow achieve a longer EOL than 9 months, too). And I trust that RHEL > will help the enterprise world reduce the MS monopoly which will definitely > be a good thing for the entire market. > > You go ahead and change to whatever you want. I'm staying RIGHT HERE until > hell freezes over of Red Hat proves conclusively that they cannot or will > not serve my customer segment any more. And I'm betting that neither is > going to happen any time soon. > > > -- > Rodolfo J. Paiz > rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Well Said! I cannot understand all of the gloom and doom. Many people seem to not be reading with care or thinking before coming to hasty conclusions. Gerry -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
