Re: Bad news

["Christopher C. Chimelis" <chris debian org>]

On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Maurice Hilarius wrote:

> It is easy to "do something" about it:
> 
> All we have to do is make sure that we can guarantee Red Hat that they will 
> sell "XXX" copies of boxed product, and I am certain they would support this.
> 
> They ARE a business, and they are supposed to try and make some money!

Don't count on it.  You'd have to sell a large amount of boxed product to
equal the developer time in US dollars.  It will be a steep uphill battle.

> If you are unhappy, don't blame Red Hat.
> Blame Compaq.

No, blame them both.  IIRC, RH was partially funded by Compaq to keep the
Alpha version of RH alive and to offset the operating costs associated
with that goal.  Compaq obviously didn't want to pay (part of that new
"lean and mean" strategy, apparently) and I'm sure RedHat considers
dropping Alpha as a no-brainer.

> But please, do not blame Red Hat. They had nothing to do with it.

Again, I think they did.  I bear no ill-will towards RedHat, despite my
Debian affiliation and above comments.  I actually considered us "in this
together" when it comes to Alpha.  It's bad news all the way around.

C