RH recommends using Windows?

[Lamar Owen]

On Tuesday 04 November 2003 01:53 pm, marcos colome wrote:
> Rehat has abandoned the desktop and the people that
> made them a great distro and now they turned they
> attention to the Corporate world 

Desktop != home user.  

> because they are
> after the big profits, but remember that Microsoft
> made all they billions from the Home consumers not
> from the corporate world

Prove it.  Fact is, Microsoft makes more money in the corporate world.  Home 
users aren't going to pay the big bucks for Win 2003 server, the CALs that 
that requires, etc.  The big bucks are in the datacenter.  Ever priced a 
datacenter edition of Win2k server?  The home market is almost a giveaway 
with the licensing MS has with the OEM's.

Home users aren't the ones that have bought Office Professional, typically.  
Or the development tools.  Ever priced a subscription to MSDN?

ISTM that Red Hat is just trying to survive so that they can continue 
payrolling some of the key Linux kernel hackers, desktop warriors, and GNU 
Compiler Collection developers (no, they don't employ all of them, but they 
do employ many of them).  STM that Red Hat needs to be profitable; their 
marketing people have determined that in order to be profitable they need to 
not let large amounts of boxed sets waste away in a warehouse.  You have to 
cut costs and increase revenues to do so.  They are, after all, contributing 
a great deal back into open source software.

Money doesn't grow on trees, you know.
-- 
Lamar Owen
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