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On 10/20/2013 04:24 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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> Am 20.10.2013 08:34, schrieb Daniel Campbell: |
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>> hm, Redhat is one of the companies investing the most money into linux |
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>> kernel, userland, graphics... if you 'don't trust them' you are pretty |
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>> much 20 years too late. |
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>> Investing money does not make them any more qualified or deserving of |
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>> making decisions. Red Hat is not the sole user of Linux. They should |
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>> consider themselves lucky that they are even able to profit from |
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>> something that's free. |
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>> You're right, though. They've been around for a while, and I've never |
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>> trusted them or any other corporate interest in *nix. There's always a |
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>> catch when dealing with a business. |
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> 'have been around for a while' - replace that with 'are financing more |
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> core developers than anybody else'. |
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That's less reason to trust, not more. That's like citing the popularity |
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of something as proof of its quality, when oftentimes it's the exact |
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opposite that's true. |
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So they spend a lot of money hiring developers. The more important |
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question is what is their agenda? What do they tell those developers to |
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*make*? You don't hire people without a business plan in mind. |