Fedora and the System Administrator
Paul Gear
paul at gear.dyndns.org
Thu Oct 9 19:54:05 UTC 2003
Mike A. Harris wrote:
> ...
> This is bogus. Red Hat financial profitability is public
> information. It's not subject to opinion really. Just go look
> at public records. I don't see anywhere that we have said we are
> not a profitable company. Quite the opposite in fact, and our
> public records should show this quarterly.
Maybe it wasn't a Red Hat employee who gave me that impression. I don't
claim to be an expert on RH finances (although i've just read your 2002
10k report
http://media.corporate-ir.net/media_files/NSD/RHAT/reports/RHAT_06170210k.pdf
and it seems to indicate consistent net losses). Folks have been
suggesting that RH *had* to make this move at the risk of going under.
Anyway, that's not the main point i was trying to address. It was the
issue of the tie between the OS and the boxed set.
Mandrake understand this distinction. Here is their products page:
http://www.mandrakestore.com/mdkworld/index.php?storereferer=&LANG=en_US&UID=&CUSTID=&origin_=
Notice that you can buy both boxed sets and just CDs.
>>A: Because we read from top to bottom, left to right.
>>Q: Why should i start my reply below the quoted text?
>
> Now that is classic! I love it! ;o)
Daniel Barron (of Dan's Guardian) has a similar one; see, e.g.:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dansguardian/message/4748
You can insult top posters with a very wide range of comments by simply
starting with the A and finishing with the Q! :-)
--
Paul
http://paulgear.webhop.net
A: Because we read from top to bottom, left to right.
Q: Why should i start my reply below the quoted text?
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