On 12/12/17 02:25 AM, Lars Noodén wrote:
> Yet, as is their habit, their response is to go ad hominem rather than
> address the points made. Money is a great motivator for company
> managers, especially at the C level. M$ pointed out ages, albeit
> inadvertently via leaked documents, that any company that can grab hold
> of "Linux" and make it effectively proprietary can lock up the market.
> Specifically I mean the Halloween Documents which have turned out to be
> quite accurate. So as to following the money trail, it looks like Red
> Hat is using the strategy and goal lined up in the first Halloween
> Document. So, if nothing else, Devuan is important in that it prevents
> Red Hat from decommoditizing Linux completely. Unfortunately that also
> makes Devuan very visible to opponents of general purpose computing.
>
I read this the other day and it made me think of systemd phenomena.
https://boingboing.net/2017/12/06/the-unknown-unknowns.html

Clarke