Ask Robert Young 269
Yes, that Bob Young. The one who helped endow online information resource ibiblio.org, but is better known for his role as co-founder and Chairman of Red Hat. Ask him anything you want, but please hold it down to one question per post. We'll send 10 of the highest-moderated inquiries to Bob (who is in England this week), and he'll send back his answers just as soon as he can.
Glaringly obvious flaw (Score:1)
This is something that's been bothering me for years. During installation, in the network setup portion, WHY does Redhat insist that a hostname is of the form mycomputer.mydomain.com?
That is what you call a fully qualified domain name NOT a hostname. The RFC states that the hostname is only the "leftmost portion" of the fully qualified domain name. Hence, hostname -fqdn. For godsakes can you please have someone fix that? We're Linux geeks, we have to hold ourselves to a higher standard.The Business Community (Score:2)
The software issue (Score:2)
I'm not sure why, but getting developers to write for Linux seems to be like pulling teeth... I wonder very much why this should be. Linux is superiour in every facet to Windows... the number of tools and toolkits available for the platform is huge. Yet still, the number of titles available is small.
Given the importance of and need for more commercial software, what if anything can/will Redhat do the increase the amount of commercial software available for the Redhat platform itself, and Linux in general?
Re:SPARC Platform Edition? (Score:2)
Point your FTP client to here: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/sparc/7.1/iso/
5 ISO images of the new SuSE 7.1 for your Sparc.
Enjoy,
Second favorite distribution? (Score:3)
Alex Bischoff
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Re:US vs China (Score:1)
If that were the case, both Chinese planes would have crashed and China would force the US to accept its spy plane back.
Red Hat & Security (Score:1)
Red Hat Linux - Win32 Edition (Score:2)
Do you have any intention of packaging WINE into a version of Red Hat targetted specifically for Windows users?
It would seem to me that this would be the optimum method to drive Windows off the desktop - especially as their liscensing becomes more restrictive.
Reluctance at Red Hat (ReiserFS, KDE, etc.) (Score:2)
A recent comment here from a Red Hat employee indicated that ReiserFS would not be included in the installation process. The reason for this decision was the lack of mature user-level tools for filesystem repair. This was the case of the last beta, although I don't know if you have changed your plans.
This is a sound argument, but sometimes it seems to me that Red Hat is rather reluctant to advance its distribution in certain areas, i.e. RH7 still lacks a 2.4 kernel.
Red Hat has influence, but not control, of technologies in the kernel and user space. Will Red Hat grow to be more receptive of technologies that are not a perfect fit with the architecture of your Linux distribution?
Lawsuit (Score:2)
Please explain the significance and what you expect to be the outcome of the recent lawsuit [theregister.co.uk] that has been filed against your company.
Red Hat Acquisitions (Score:5)
Q: How do you see these acquisitions as helping Red Hat and its position in the market?
Re:Do you think a recession will help RedHat/Linux (Score:2)
Now I think there could be some very big wins for Linux on the desktop, but the pure outlay cost is not one of them. Less downtime and better security. And being able to replace a dead workstation quicly all would be pluses for Linux however.
Re:Security (Score:2)
Re:Would you really recommend it for desktop use? (Score:2)
If not, either use free software, or just go back to pen and paper.
R&D killed by Free software? (Score:2)
Hi Bob!
My question to you is, when you allocate part of your budget to R&D, are you in fact cutting your own throat? (How's that for a loaded question?)
To expand, why should I use a RedHat distribution, since it mainly isn't terribly different from a SuSE, Debian, or Caldera, unless RedHat has something that the others don't.
But, RedHat can't develop a major system enhancement within large portions of the OS because of the nature of Free software. RedHat can only develop a proprietary userland applications (which, granted, isn't all that bad -- it leaves you plenty of room for powerful applications) because any major system enhancement that RedHat develops can almost immediately be absorbed by your "competitors". Thus, the profit-motive is significantly depressed (if not removed) from pure R&D.
I understand that RedHat doesn't make significant revenues from OS sales -- I ask the question in terms of bugetary policy within the company and how it may (or may not) affect the decision-making process.
"Beware by whom you are called sane."
Most important decision for RH? (Score:4)
Free- and Non-Free Software getting along? (Score:5)
The venerable Richard Stallman has a habit of saying that all software should be free -- he is therefor not interested in making Free Software too interoperable with Commercial, Closed-Source software.
On the other had, the also venerable Linus Torvalds has an opposite view; that free software has it's place and that non-free software also has place, and that all efforts should be made to make them co-exist.
Since you have on foot in each world, as it were, what are your feelings on this? Should Free and Open source software be expected to "play nice" with software from various Evil Empires? Or should it concentrate only on relation with other like software projects, and require the commercial world adapt to cooperating with Free software?
Re:Problems with RPM. (Score:2)
However, this book is not available online in html format.
Maximum RPM [rpmdp.org] A ten second google search turned that one up. Also try www.rpm.org, where you can get a latex version.
However, *some* of us dont use X windows,
Why not? You're crippling yourself to not run it long enough to print out a hardcopy.
and for us select few, we cant view it.
Try lynx.
I have however, converted it from that format to text, losing much of the styling and formatting.
Yes, that's what happens when you convert something to plaintext.
In the spirit of open source, dont you feel that it is completely BACKWARDS to have a open source tool, where the documentation that allows developers to package using it is proprietary, non-open,
Well, it's not like you can't redistribute it. For free. However it looks like you have to ask permission to modify it. Point granted.
and subject to licensing restrictions?!!?
As most licences are. See "GPL"
The man page doesnt even *mention* half the creation commandline options, and I think that was on purpose.
Perhaps in the interest of brevity? Are you annoyed that they didn't translate maximum rpm into a man page? I'm guessing most people want to know how to use it from a user's, not packager's, perspective. What you want would count as "too much information"
Compunding the issue is the fact that the book has not been updated in years, let alone since the coming of rpm4!
(sigh) Look, this book was pretty good when I used it but I did not take it to be the end-all and be-all rpm bible forever and ever and I doubt redhat intended it to be. There are many various sources of documentation on rpm, I'm sure you can find one that's more up-to-date. Check www.rpm.org.
As a developer, I would love to hear why you dont want me to package using your system. The reasons outlined above lead me to that conclusion.
As a fellow developer, I can't think of a better documented system. On any OS. Which I know is begging for a counterexample, but I would be interested to know about it. Perhaps someone can send me the URL for 'Maximum Dpkg'.
Respectfully, buck
Do you think a recession will help RedHat/Linux? (Score:5)
We had an Ask Slashdot a few days ago wondering whether a recession will help Linux or not. Since you're the CEO of RedHat, you probably have a better idea as to what effect a recession will have on RedHat and Linux. So, do you think you will gain more market share during a recession than you would otherwise?
99% ain't enough sometimes (Score:2)
Go you big red fire engine!
Competing against MacOSX (Score:5)
Re:Would you really recommend it for desktop use? (Score:2)
Not to mention that Microsoft lowballs the OEM price of Win9x/ME to the point that it's quite competitive with Linux on price even. The market isn't very profitable unless you look at the aggregate.
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Man Pages (Score:2)
As a user, I don't think pointing at the upstream package maintainers (like GNU) is acceptable, and that any OS distribution should have a common, centralized system of documentation and help.
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Re:Do you think a recession will help RedHat/Linux (Score:2)
Actually, hardware is usually the cheapest part of the corporate computing puzzle, although, you are correct that capital purchases tend to get cut back during a recession.
The cost of support and software licences and perhaps even infrastructure (network, Internet, etc) far outweigh the cost of hardware.
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Jobs in the Linux market? (Score:2)
Re:Hey! (Score:3)
Other Dists (Score:3)
What about -- don't yawn -- quality? (Score:2)
It often seems to me that RedHat is a bit schizophrenic about what it's market is: it can't make up it's mind whether it's for newbies, or a bleeding-edge, experimental distro. Despite the fact that RedHat's reputation was originally built on being eaisier-to-use, it has a distressing habit of shipping alpha quality software and making it the default, in effect pushing it on the new folks who are least able to deal with it. (I'm thinking about AnotherLevel, linuxconf and Enlightenment at the moment, I could probably think of others.) So my question is, can you say something concrete about what RedHat is doing about the problem of Quality? Post-IPO, was there an attempt at beefing up the QA department? Has there been any change in QA proceedures? Are there any plans to deviate from shipping by the calender rather than just whenever the software is ready?
I do realize that this is a difficult problem: how do you work out QA proceedures for software that has no spec? I would guess that you must write your own specs based on how you expect the distribution to be used. Or do you get by without somehow?
if Bob *is* England this week... (Score:2)
Linux afficionados are also known for their highly contagious tongue-in-cheek comments style, I'm starting to wonder if there wouldn't be a corelation between the time spent on computers and the risk of catching a dreadful three-words diseases. Shall we start digging trenches around tech centers?
/max
Who decides what goes in and how? (Score:5)
For example, I've seen pre-releases of KDE get included and updated in rawhide (and I believe in actual Red Hat releases) rather often, but even the individual GNOME components are almost never updated until well after a full stable release is announced. There are other examples, but that's the main one that comes to mind.
There also still seems to be a lot of 0.x version software in Red Hat to this day. So, I'm just curious how you make these technical decisions are made.
Why invest in RedHat? (Score:5)
RedHat has the biggest name recognition of all the Linux distributions. To many non-tech types Linux == RedHat. And you are now breaking even, yet despite that RedHat's stock went from $80 a share to less than $5 and there doesn't seem to be a sign of that turning around.
What do you say to people who ask why they should invest in RedHat? Also, as a high-tech company I'm sure employees got stock options, how are they dealing with the crash in share prices and how do you convince them their options are still worth something?
Security (Score:5)
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Re:Do you think a recession will help RedHat/Linux (Score:2)
While good for the company it should be noted that we aren't paying somebody for support on that system. So while I see a recession as being good for linux, I don't see it being good for a linux company. But that's just my experience.
Re:Do you think a recession will help RedHat/Linux (Score:2)
use LaTeX? want an online reference manager that
Re:Architectures (Score:2)
As another poster mentioned, Mandrake comes compiled out of the box (iso) for the newer versions of the x86 architecture.
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Is Redhat a power player? (Score:2)
interviews section has problems (Score:2)
There are serious problems with slashdot's moderation system and there is no forum to deal with these metaissues. Slashdot is very unlike the user driven site it once was.
Re:Do you think a recession will help RedHat/Linux (Score:2)
Let's say that a company chooses to use postgres, mysql, interbase, or sapdb instead of SQL server. They can save hundreds of thousands of dollars and still use access through ODBC. No retraining of the desktop users and save a ton of money.
Same goes for things like proxy server, file and print services, ditching exchange, etc. You can fully populate the back end with linux and gain huge savings. You are forced to buy MS licences with every PC anyway so you really can't save money by replacing windows on the client.
Star Office (open office) is actually pretty similar to ms-office especially considering that 90% of users only use 5% of the capability or office. They should pick it up with no retraining at all. If you have custom apps you can port them to kylix or wxwindows to prep for a future migration of your desktop.
Re:Apple humiliates Gmome, KDE, Linux (Score:2)
Your impressions on the recent MS Interview (Score:5)
BeOS + Linux = Benix? (Score:2)
Some of the Slashdot discussion speculated [slashdot.org] that RedHat might be interested in buying Be. Others noted legal [escribe.com] difficulties in opening the BeOS source, but the company recently registered [slashdot.org] some thought provoking domain names [theregister.co.uk], so they may be planning to try it anyway.
A very interesting comment [slashdot.org] noted that BeOS and Linux complement each other nicely, with BeOS a great desktop system for end users while Linux works best as a server. It's a good point. We may be expecting a lot of an OS to make it do well on everything from high end mainframes & servers to desktop PCs & handheld PDAs & even small embedded controllers. While it's impressive that Linux can do all this, maybe allowing complementary systems to have complementary roles might be a better idea.
As the head of RedHat (chief hat wearer? ;), what do you think of such speculation? Do you think that Linux could stand to gain by using BeOS technology? Would it be worthwhile to purchase Be &/or get involved in opening their software? If Sony's BeIA [be.com] driven eVilla [evilla.com] internet appliance [slashdot.org] catches on, having a stake in that contract could be very lucrative, but of course that's a gamble at this point.
Or do you feel that, as much as things may seem superficially similar, that there is too much dissonance between the Linux & BeOS worlds to make a merger worthwhile? Do you disagree that having separate systems for desktop & server could be a good idea? If you feel that there should be "one OS to rule them all," could (indeed, should)Linux take a lesson from Be about how to make a really good, easy, slick desktop frontend for the existing excellent but arcane back end that Linux provides?
In short, should these two be wedded and can such a marriage work?
Anti Climactic Career (Score:2)
Partner Policies of exclusivity (Score:2)
An example culprit is Dell. The "Dell" RAID controller is a modified Adaptec RAID controller which is not supported under the kernel, but can be made to work under (only) RedHat 5.x/6.x while running a specific kernel version (the latest release was only for 2.2.14 kernels). I entirely understand that these driver choices are made entirely by the vendor (Dell) and are their responsibility, but a larger problem remains.
Dell offers "Linux" packaged on some of their hardware, and claim that they are compatible with "Linux" with that hardware. Of course, much of their hardware is only "compatible" with RedHat Linux, and only under specific RPM releases for specific default RedHat kernels (such as the RAID situation just mentioned). This hardware vendor trend has caused a sort of "embrace and extend" situation involving hard-compiled drivers packaged via RPM. I have to work with three "Linux-compatible" servers at work that are NOT Linux kernel compatible. I am forced to run RedHat 6.1 with the 2.2.14 kernel, because it is NOT possible to upgrade to a newer kernel, or a newer distribution. It certainly leaves the impression that RedHat is trying to push other Distributions out of the market, while locking-in their customers to quickly outdated (and vulnerability-ridden) software.
How does RedHat stand on the endorsement/promotion/disapproval of such actions by OEM partners, such as Dell?
How do you feel about the indirect damages upon the rest of the Linux community, due to RedHat's stance on this issue?
Problems with RPM. (Score:3)
First, a small rant. The primary "ideal" source of information for how to package rpm's is of course the book "Maximum RPM".
However, this book is not available online in html format. It is however available in postscript which is easily read in X windows on a redhat machine.
However, *some* of us dont use X windows, and for us select few, we cant view it. I have however, converted it from that format to text, losing much of the styling and formatting.
In the spirit of open source, dont you feel that it is completely BACKWARDS to have a open source tool, where the documentation that allows developers to package using it is proprietary, non-open, and subject to licensing restrictions?!!?
The man page doesnt even *mention* half the creation commandline options, and I think that was on purpose.
Compunding the issue is the fact that the book has not been updated in years, let alone since the coming of rpm4!
As a developer, I would love to hear why you dont want me to package using your system. The reasons outlined above lead me to that conclusion.
Packaging standards (Score:3)
This of course presuming that upon reaching that status, it has features that are comparable or better than rpm. (Which the current FreeBSD ports/pkg system CERTAINLY has acheived -- wouldnt you agree?)
Further, have you considered switching to the apt-get/deb system? It is the number one reason most people seem to switch to debian, and in every way I know of seems to be superior technically to rpm.
Ways to enhance the public knowledgebase (Score:2)
Hardware support (Score:4)
Linux is not in that state, save for (perhaps) networking devices. Has RedHat considered helping to fund driver development for other forms of hardware? I'm thinking mostly of 3D accelerated video cards (by helping to fund the DRI group), but other items (scanners, USB->IDE interfaces, etc.) would be nice too.
Release Problems (Score:2)
A unified desktop? (Score:3)
Certification (Score:2)
What are RedHat plans/strategies on promoting RedHat Linux Certification?
Is there any interest in this certification program from resellers,corporations,IT proffessionals and/or anyone else?
Afterstep (Score:2)
Soul source (Score:2)
Hi Bob,
About three years ago (or so) Redhat stopped selling any proprietary software after having previously acted as a channel for a variety of vendors including Metro-X, X/Open Motif, and (IIRC) Applixware. In doing so you made your company center its attention fully on open source, but at the same time you closed one of the then best available sales channels for companies interested in selling commercial software for Linux.
Retrospectively, do you think this was a net benefit to the open source community, and how do you think that Redhat and the community's view of Redhat would have been altered if it had continued to funnel commercial software into the market?
Do you worry about? (Score:2)
Given the nature of the embedded side of your business, does Wind River's announced purchase of BSD code going to cause your firm to work harder, or just give up on the embedded side? Wind River didn't have a compelling price point per unit that can match the Open Source/Free Software models. And, well, no BSD or Linux vendors can pay 1 billion and get BSD/gnu-linux embedded in a set-top [slashdot.org] box.
Future Improvements (Score:2)
"I may not have morals, but I have standards."
Using code from other Linux distributions (Score:4)
How does it feel to go from 150 to 5? (Score:2)
Was it depressing? Did you feel tha the 150 was so outlandish that it couldn't sustain itself?
Re:Standardization (Score:2)
The model around Linux is truly bizarre. How much do RedHat or Calderareally make from selling their distributions? It seems not very much. Soin order for them to survive they rely on selling proprietary software,support, services, books, tee shirts, penguins etc. Not a veryrevolutionary business, but in the end they must sell something if theywant to survive.
In general, Microsoft is touting the position that Linux companies will not survive much longer.
Any rebuttal?
Re:Where does the name red hat comes from? (Score:2)
Control of the company? (Score:2)
What have been the good and bad effects of the new management?
Re:If you ask me politely. (Score:2)
If you want to know what god thinks of money, look at those he gives it to.
Loosening the golden ring from Microsoft's grasp (Score:3)
This is the same question I asked Doug Miller of Microsoft:
When Compaq (later followed by others) loosened the GoldenRing from IBM's grasp by reverse engineering theirproprietary bios, theOpen Hardware PC platform revolution was ignited.Motherboards, memory, adapter cards, etc... could be made byanybody; hardwareinnovation increased at a rapid pace, and prices plummeted.
That left only two proprietary pieces atop the Open HardwarePC: the Intel CPU and the Microsoft OS.
Intel's been losing ground, especially with clone maker AMD(but, AMD still has to pay Intel royalties for every cloneprocessor).
The OS, though, has proven tough to emulate. Not only doesit reach the pinnacle of complexity (where chaos kicks in),but any emulatormust chase Microsoft's tail: the emulation will be worthlesscome Microsoft's next OS patch (i.e. the DRDOS settlement).
In Judge Jackson's findings in the Microsoft Antitrust case, he concluded that Linux is not positioned to overtake Windows, because it isn't Windows compatible.People won't switch because of the training costs and potential for incompatibility with their existing data.
Personally, I believe Open Source is a software revolution, just on a different tangent from the average user. In order to win over the average user: they don't just need a great desktop, they need full Windows compatibility.
How will Open Source lure the average user from Windows?
Mandrake (Score:5)
How do you feel about the fact that Red Hat Linux was 'the womb' of what would now have to be considerer one of the strongest Linux distros for the desktop, and a major competitior to Red Hat on the desktop with it's claimed "99% Red Hat compatibility"?
Won't comment (Score:2)
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Pending Class-Action Lawsuits (Score:2)
Is this a case of sour grapes after the metoric rise and subsequent fall of RHAT?
Linux Standards Base (Score:3)
Re:Problems with RPM. (Score:3)
What the hell are you talking about? Why on earth would you need X to read a PostScript document? GhostScript will run on damn near anything.
Not only that, but the book is available in LaTeX source form. That pretty much guarantees that it's available on just about any computer and any operating system that's come out in the last 15 or 20 years. LaTeX is so ubiquitous that if you have a spare IBM PCjr from 1984, an old black and white TV for a monitor, and no hard drive, you can probably use it to format and preview the document. I would also be very suprised if you could find any working printer that could not be used to typeset that book.
You're just trolling here, and you know it.
Tell the truth (Score:2)
Re:Tell the truth (Score:2)
But you have to rush if you want anyone to read what you write on slashdot ;-)
RedHat and Microsoft .NET (Score:5)
Re:Architectures (Score:2)
For example:
ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/7/redhat/updates/7.0/en
ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/7/redhat/updates/7.0/en
Same goes for i586.
((Interoperability || Freedom) && Future) == ? (Score:3)
For example, we Linux users have a choice of either KDE or Gnome for a desktop. We have a choice of prompts, choice of window managers, choice of MANY different things. For the tech-head, this is great. Freedom in development is great. Though, for the average, ever-elusive novice Linux user, this freedom to choose is complicated and can be very confusing.
How is Red Hat planning on this interoperability/easy user experience without pigeon-holeing(sp?) themselves into one market or another, or splintering into sub-distributions?
Re:SPARC Platform Edition? (Score:2)
Slackware SPARC [slackware.com]
IPO Lawsuit (Score:2)
The Desktop (Score:3)
Software as a Service? (Score:2)
Over the past couple of years the "soup du jour" of the "Open Source Business Model" has been the notion of software as a service. While, I firmly believe that this is the way software should be marketed, I've yet to be convinced that anyone has found the "way". With Ximian, Eazel, and a host of other companies offering the promise of value added services for their software, what in your opinion sets Red Hat apart from the rest?
Thank you.
Re:MS vs. Open Source business model (Score:2)
MS vs. Open Source business model (Score:4)
What is your reaction to this comment, and do you think the current Open Source business model works? Does it need to be changed?
Hat (Score:2)
Where did you get that hat?
Headgear (Score:2)
I can answer this... (Score:2)
Reprice and/or hand out more options. Common practice when stocks go down.
It's the economy, stupid (Score:3)
Standardization (Score:5)
Doug Miller, a Microsoft executive, was recently interviewed for Slashdot. Many of the questions posed were regarding the competitiveness of Linux with Windows in the medium-term. To paraphrase, Rob said that there was no viable business model based on Linux, that the lack of standardization (ie. KDE v. Gnome) would be enough of an economic disincentive to commercial application developers to prevent them from venturing into the market.
On the face of it, he seems to have a point. What do you think? Does Linux need to be herded down the path towards a super-majority recognized 'standard' to be successful, or can the type of open-source movement to date provide enough tools and applications to drive Linux to dominance?
Would you really recommend it for desktop use? (Score:5)
Bob, if you had a non-technical friend or relative who currently uses Windows, Quicken, Office, IE and AOL, could you in good conscience tell him it would be in his best interest to use Linux instead? What exactly would be in it for him?
Unsettling MOTD at my ISP.
Red Hat and the average user? (Score:2)
My question would be: What are you doing to bring Red Hat to the masses of average computer users?
Directions you envisioned RedHat taking (Score:2)
"Titanic was 3hr and 17min long. They could have lost 3hr and 17min from that."
DMCA a threat to open source? (Score:3)
Do you think that laws such as the DMCA pose a threat to open source software, in that they may lead to the creation of proprietary, encrypted file formats, running only on proprietary operating systems, for media such as films, music and books?
Microsoft Association? (Score:2)
Red Hat Future Desktops (Score:3)
Question (Score:4)
SPARC Platform Edition? (Score:4)
Where do you see Linux profitable growth areas? (Score:3)
My question is, where do you see the profitable areas of Linux as being for Red Hat (or other distros)? Is it embedded systems more than servers, or info appliances? And has the introduction of major players such as IBM into the Linux R&D space been a help or a hindrance to Linux growth?
Future Horizons (Score:2)
We all know that Linux (especially in combination with Apache) rules the server space. However, widespread adoption in other spaces seems elusive; only developers and geeks run it as a desktop OS, microkernel architectures tend to be preferred for embedded applications (where I'm betting the Hurd will do well), and nobody outside of IBM uses Linux to run a wristwatch.
Where do you see future growth for Linux? Do you think ease-of-use issues (e.g., recompiling the kernel to support a newly-installed device) will eventually be conquered, allowing broader desktop adoption, or will Wine be the key, by pushing back application availability horizons? Will my consumer appliances run linux anytime soon? My car's dashboard?
Thanks for your time.
- Brad "Toaster: Kernel panic" Heintz
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Re:Future Horizons (Score:2)
OK,
- B
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Architectures (Score:2)
Can the Server Biz Subsidize Desktop Dev? (Score:4)
Let's be optimistic and assume that RedHat will achieve profitability through its support services for businesses running RedHat Linux.
Would it then make sense for RedHat to use some of its resources to help intensify the struggle towards desktop-readiness for Linux?
It seems to me that would be a good thing to do, since it could help expand the RedHat user community, ergo the customer base for RedHat's services... especially if Linux could become a viable desktop OS for larger enterprises, in which case RedHat, as the leading distro brand, would probably get the lion's share of support contracts.
Do you see this happening? Why or why not?
thanx.
- frosty
www.medienkunst.com [medienkunst.com]
Re:The Real Story (Score:3)
Salaries, contributing. (Score:2)
You have some in-house developers but overall you haven't paid much for your product (and your service that is build on that product).
It seems quite unethical that (at least for your redhat os boxes) you take all the revenue but don't pay anything to its developers and inventors.
Don't they deserve to get paid?
beta gcc question.... (Score:2)
Why exactly was the beta gcc put in Redhat?
It seems there would have to be a serious reason to justify using it. Most companies put out software for redhat, that users of other distros can run dispite it being developed on redhat. Making a binary incompatability between redhat and the rest of the world is a pritty big step that looks to be monopolistic. I just want to know what technical reason required it to be done in the first place.
-EvilMonkeyNinja
a.k.a. Joseph Nicholas Yarbrough
Security Grunt by Day
Programmer by Night
Dream Deal? (Score:3)
What do you think RedHat's "dream deal" would be?
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Red Hat / Windows XP / MacOS X / The Desktop (Score:2)