Re: Fundamental issues with open source software

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Author: Craig White
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To: plug-discuss
Subject: Re: Fundamental issues with open source software
On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 10:34, Chris Gehlker wrote:
> 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.

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Then I am truly stupid because I re-read the article and I would swear
that it is exactly about end usability.
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> >
> > 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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I haven't gotten what your point is this morning except to be
condescending.

Craig

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