Re: Fundamental issues with open source software

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Author: Chris Gehlker
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To: plug-discuss
Subject: Re: Fundamental issues with open source software
On Apr 15, 2004, at 10:02 AM, Craig White wrote:

> actually the discussion was about FOSS and end usability - If you want
> to only discuss the 'Mom and Pop' businesses, I suppose that it is your
> bent.


It was about the difficulties in supporting small users. That isn't
exactly the same discussion as end usability.
>
> Whether Red Hat has priced themselves out of that market is debatable
> since they offer two products Fedora and RH-WS


But Fedora doesn't seem to have inherited Red Hat's mantle as what
folks can be assumed to mean when they say 'Linux' without
qualification.
>
> HP (compaq) has beaten everyone to the punch by offering Desktop
> systems
> with Mandrake pre-installed.


Kind of supports my point.

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