[NTLUG:Discuss] Redhat self-destructs

[Christopher Browne]

On Fri, 06 Oct 2000 23:00:17 CDT, the world broke into rejoicing as
Chris Cox <cjcox at acm.org>  said:
> From the people who brought you glibc before it was ready...
> From the people who brought you mounts by volume name before it was ready...
> 
> ...now comes gcc 2.96 (before it's ready)...!!!
> 
> Come on Redhat!!  This one is going to cause them some grief.
> 
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-announce/2000/msg00003.html
> 
> To their credit (LIKE ALL OTHER DISTRIBUTIONS MIND YOU), Redhat
> has brought their own "good" inovations too... so they're not
> ALL bad, but this BLEEDING (and I mean bleeding) edge
> technique of jumping ahead of the other distributions for
> the sake of creating incompatibility ... thus making you
> want to switch to their distribution ... well it sounds
> like something a company with monopoly on their minds
> would do.

One problem with the "monopoly" theory is that this promises to
make Red Hat Linux 7.0 (with GCC "2.96" components) incompatible
with GCC 3.0, which Red Hat happens to be paying to develop (via
their ownership of Cygnus).

I certainly agree that RHAT is working _real_ hard to stay at
the utter bleeding edge.  I had no problem with Caldera doing this
with their "Technology Preview," but the notion of productizing
this stuff is going to bring RHAT as much grief as it provides 
anyone else...
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