RE: Nonsense Re:.....

[Tom Diehl <tdiehl rogueind com>]

On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Taylor, ForrestX wrote:

> > I agree on that too, but, again, we tried to figure out how to help
> > the third world to have equal opportunities in business and education
> > with Free Software and junk hardware. THAT is our (=westerners)
> > concern and responsibility, as I feel it. If, after they've learned
> > emacs, mutt and such, they want to 
> > play Quake, it's THEIR business, not ours anymore.
> > 
> > 
> > 	Marco Fioretti
> 
> Yes, we can do a lot to help others who really want to learn how to use
> computers--in our own neighborhoods, as well as third-world countries.
> However, I think that Red Hat is trying to run a profitible business, and we
> all benefit when they are.  I think that Trond was trying to say that it
> doesn't make _financial_ sense for Red Hat to concentrate their
> money/developers/etc. on a low-end (=low memory) install, because they won't
> reap the benefits.  How many of those people using RH on low-memory systems
> will actually buy a Red Hat distribution?  If you get things going, I will
> volunteer my time/resources.

Agreed!! You can say what you want but an article in Linux Journal I read
yesterday had a statment something to the effect, that of all of the
linux .coms that had IPO's the only one still left with linux as it main
business is Redhat. Given this IMHO they must be doing something right. 
I know that there are times when I disagree with what Redhat does but as 
was stated above it is impossible to be all things to all people and in 
order to survive long term they MUST do what makes the best economic sense 
even if some people do not like it.

Besides that is why there are other distros. For that matter for loading on a
bunch of 486's I would most likely look at RHL 6.2. It is still somewhat 
supported and I think it will install on much smaller amounts of memory.

Regards,

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