[NTLUG:Discuss] Bob Young's Statement to Slashdot

[Randall Gibson]

Hehe, I went through 2 days of AGONY to get Debian installed on my Laptop
here, even though SuSE did it all in no time flat. Just because SuSE is
based on Red-Hat. If they could get rpm's to be as easy to work with as
deb's I wouldnt bother, but you only install once, you have to be able to
maintain it for a LONG time.

On Thu, 12 Oct 2000 18:24:09 Chris Cox wrote:
> I think it speaks for itself....I'm very disappointed.  Basically Bob
> sounds like
> the problem isn't with what they did in 7.0... the problem is YOU!!
> 
> http://slashdot.org/features/00/10/12/163218.shtml
> 
> > So if you want to criticise us for shipping gcc 2.96,
> > you have every right to do so - you'd be wrong, but it is at least a
>                                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > legitimate debate and I'd respect your opinion. But to compare Red Hat
> > to Microsoft indicates an ignorance of what is
> > driving our success.
> 
> ...and...
> 
> > We may be making mistakes - that up to you to decide. Some of them may
> be
>      ^^^^^^   
> > important to you and while I have no doubt you will point them out to
> us,
> > you have control over the technology you are using. We work hard to
> build
> > products that please most of our users most of the time. But if you
> don't
> > like something about Red Hat Linux you don't have to use that feature
> or
>                                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > function. We simply are not pursing a business model that bears any
> > resemblance to Microsoft's, so just quit it. 
> > 
> > The next slashdotter who compares anything Red Hat does to Microsoft
> will
> > be punished. The punishment will be to find the nearest blackboard and
> > write "freedom & personal responsibility good, serfdom & tyrannical
> > control bad" seven hundred times.
> 
> If I wanted a distribution that requires significant patching (e.g.
> getting
> to a real version of gcc and possibly recompiling many C++ programs)...
> I could get that anywhere...and certainly for cheaper than RH.
> 
> People on Slashdot often behave like 4 year olds.... Bob must be a
> Slashdotter too!
> 
> That's the end for RH in my book....
> Chris
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