On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 09:53 -0500, taharka wrote:
OK, that's not really true. Mark is a sharp guy, and gets open source as well, indeed, better, than most. But he's completely wrong on his criticism of Red Hat (which Greg of the Fedora Project shoots down). His basic point? Because RHEL is a closed binary, it's proprietary.
Full article at, http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2007/01/ubuntu_founder.htm...
My intelligence just got insulted with that article there. So, predictably I ranted. I pointed out that rule #1 in Marketing 101 is to never openly attack your competitor. I have no clue how that man made his money, it must have been purely by some act of fate or inheritance, and not by good business skills. I might have decided to give Ubuntu a whirl, but not now. "Ahh Heyal Nahhh", as we said in Texas. Ric