Re: RH recommends using Windows?

[Trond Eivind Glomsrød <teg pvv org>]

marcos colome wrote:

> Rehat has abandoned the desktop and the people that
> made them a great distro
Creating Fedora is hardly abandoning them... if anything, it invites to more
community participation.

> but remember that Microsoft
> made all they billions from the Home consumers not
> from the corporate world
>  
An incredible profit margin? Sure. But business is where they make a 
real killing... 
looked at the size and profit margin of their office section lately? And 
the prices
of the professional edition of windows (which is what you need for 
anyone using
windows in business these days, the network authentication and CIFS was 
gutted
from the home edition and works well as a market segmentation mechanism) 
and
windows servers (with extra fees for clients accessing them) isn't low 
either.

Business and home user segments can both be profitable, but have 
different needs.
Red Hat doesn't have the size to do everything at once, and the 
unability to have it
work with all sorts of hardware is a big problem (and support generator) 
in the home
market. Sure, I know what to look for... and to check it first on the 
web, buy it
afterwards. That doesn't mean the rest of the world doesn't already have 
a big investment
in hardware they want to continue working... or that they won't expect 
hardware they
pick up for whatever reason in a store 'look! a cool and cheap digital 
camera!' to just
work either. And that's not really an ureasonable expectation either, IMHO.
Same applies to software... people like to go down to a store, buy 
programs doing what
they want and just use it... things like turbotax.

This is getting pretty off topic for the list, so I'll end my 
contribution to the thread here.