On Tuesday 04 November 2003 23:55, Andrew M. Hoerter wrote:
> > I would recommending switching to either Gentoo, Debian, and FreeBSD.
>
> All great choices too. But I think people are writing off Fedora a little
> too quickly on the basis of rumor rather than fact.
>
I do not know about the rest of you but I am seriously concerned about the
continued existence of Red Hat as a distribution and SuSE as a distribution.
This little fiasco in UT is not over or stabilized yet. If anything it is
probable more unstable now than it has been up to this date.
Not only is this fiasco not over but most like several major trump cards are
not face up on the table yet. Realize that only face up cards in this poker
game can be observed by the spectators [us].
As far as the continued existence of Linux that is not a concern.
Linus is just to widely available in to many countries for SCOX to be a threat
but actions under US law are a completely different matter.
The speculation on Gorklaw and most of the Linux/Unix BB is that SCOX is way
way out in fantasy land. What almost all these BB seem unable to grasp is
that there is and has been two wars on going for years that have merged: IBM
vs MS and Novel vs Canopy.
Point is that the merger of SuSE and Novel most like had little to do with any
software considerations but is strictly a licensing, financial, and legal
alliance against against SCO / Canopy and their financial supporter(s) who is
speculated to be MS but in reality can only be classified as unknown,
Looking at this from an investment point of view the NOVL, RHAT, and SCOX are
way way over valued with NOVL and RHAT being artificially inflated by the
drastic over valuation of SCOX by Linux [as a culture] ignorant speculators.
Normally this would not be of much interest to teckies from a pure teckie
point of view but in this situation it is raising major concerns about the
continued existence of NOVL and RHAT as independent entities. The betting on
a number of financial BB is that NOVL will be taken over in part or
restructured after the SuSE / Novel merger such that in effect NOVL is either
a fully integrated part of IBM or somehow covered by IBM's corporate
umbrella.
As far as Linux distributions are concerned it may be time to start
considering exploration of distributions that are non English Language or non
German Language home base in order to evade both legal systems.
In other words: "Has any one taken a serious look at Red Flag yet and it ease
of installation?"
Why Red Flag?
A number critically important of reasons.
If I recall correctly IBM and Red Hat have alliances with Red Flag and Red
Flag.
Red Flag does have the ability to put a 10 CD box distribution on US store
shelves for under $US 30.
Red Flag is bases in a country that has the ability to tell the US legal
system [under which SCOX is attempting to take over all Linux] to take its
sills shit and shove it if the situation [in UT] deteriorates futher.
Frank
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