Questioning RH's decisions to remain a viable and independent company?

[Albert DE WINT]

> > Maybe, one day some Linux distro will be accused of creating a monopoly
> > ;-) 
> > 
> > (Déjà vu?)
> 
> I prefer a Linux distribution owning a monopoly on the operation system
> market over Microsoft. A Linux-distro, at least most parts of it, are
> fully open-source, so it is easy to use an alternative-distro or
> operation system because standards, fileformats etc. are open. 

I fully agree, obviously. 
It's been a nerveous day, I guess we all need some kidding once in a
while.
> 
> More interesting: Will Ximian still be available for Red Hat base
> operating systems? Ximian Desktop was already available for SuSE, but i
> can imagen that Ximian will stop supporting Red Hat.

Not necessarily.  Suppose we'd simply ask them, would they care about
answering?  There's only one way to find out.

Albert