Fedora Desktop future- RedHat moves

max bianco maximilianbianco at gmail.com
Sun Apr 27 20:09:31 UTC 2008


On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 4:00 PM, Francis Earl <lunitik at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Greater share of platforms? why? If you define success by marketshare
>  > then M$ won long ago. Everyone else might as well curl up in a corner
>  > with their knees to their chest and blubber. You say you want to
>  > *take* market share but what ever for?what will you do with the
>  > marketshare once you have it?Spend all your time wondering how to keep
>  > people from jumping ship that's what.
>
>  I disagree, I believe RedHat and others WILL gain marketshare eventually
>  on the consumer desktop. I think they will just take their time to do it
>  CORRECTLY. If companies like RedHat are effective, then the consumers
>  demands will change. It takes time to educate people that do not want to
>  be educated though, that is the battle for RedHat.
>

I agree but the choice must be in the hands of the user. If you have
to convince people to do the right thing then you have already lost. I
came to the conclusion that free software is for me on my own. Nobody
sold it to me.

Max




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