On 2015-08-31 05:34, Steve Litt wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Aug 2015 16:20:15 -0400
> Clarke Sideroad <clarke.sideroad@???> wrote:
>
>> It seems to me that with so much in common GNU/Linux or UNIX use that
>> was so deeply flawed, he/Redhat would have been further ahead to just
>> fork off and create Poettericks or or Poetterdows.
>
> No, because in a head to head showdown where people could alternate
> between Linux and PoetterGlom, in a year or two Linux would have won on
> technical merits. They had to wreck Linux before they could proceed
> with their plan.
>
>>
>> I guess the problem with heading in that direction would have be the
>> lack of recognition, his project/operating system seems to have taken
>> advantage of a well established name, Linux and managed to Hijack a
>> large proportion of the userbase. a rather astute strategic and
>> political move when you look at it that way.
>
> But ask, why does Redhat pay him for this. Redhat can't make money
> consulting a simple OS that any admin can admin.
>
> Follow the money.
>
> SteveT
>
> Steve Litt
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It's the NSA. Redhat is unsurprising ... debian? ... they must have
spent years putting the right people in the right places ...