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Article #1714Re: KDE v. Gnome
From: Jason Clifford
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 00:00
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 00:00
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In article <slrn7106b5.dud.dblake@dylan.ucsf.edu>, Dave Blake <dblake@dylan.ucsf.edu> writes >Red Hat PAYS the developers, and they WORK for Red Hat. >They may produce GPL code and have intellectual freedom, >but they are GREAT MARKETING for Red Hat and further establish >Red Hat as the number one commercial linux consulting firm. SOME of the developers work for Red Hat. Most however do not. >Red Hat is doing something I do not see anyone else doing - >they are embracing a very different market strategy. They >truly believe the future is in support and consulting >for linux, and not in distribution sales. They want to >give away the best distribution possible to drive the OS >market down to zero dollars. That is what we do. We sell Linux and associated software at a loss because we know that in the longer term we will make more from consulting and support services. -- Jason Clifford Definite Linux Systems http://definite.ukpost.com/
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1103af,4460b3faefba3773 X-Google-Attributes: gid1103af,public X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,942a0596db2b8174 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-Thread: fcfb9,942a0596db2b8174 X-Google-Attributes: gidfcfb9,public X-Google-Thread: 10d8ad,4460b3faefba3773 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d8ad,public From: Jason Clifford <jason@dlsl.demon.co.uk> Subject: Re: KDE v. Gnome Date: 1998/09/29 Message-ID: <6HpopJA+vKE2EwGk@dlsl.demon.co.uk> X-Deja-AN: 396281715 X-NNTP-Posting-Host: dlsl.demon.co.uk:194.222.129.182 References: <6snt2s$rnk$1@news-2.news.gte.net> <Pine.SOL.3.91.980923105630.13773B-100000@howard> <360fb4c0.25402167@news.demon.co.uk> <RAf*6c-Gn@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk> <CNkG7GAKUAE2EwBj@dlsl.demon.co.uk> <slrn7106b5.dud.dblake@dylan.ucsf.edu> X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 907147861 nnrp-09:15662 NO-IDENT dlsl.demon.co.uk:194.222.129.182 Organization: Definite Linux Systems Ltd MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: uk.comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss