From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 4 13:17:53 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD76816A4CE for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2003 13:17:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from zeus.acuson.com (ac17860.acuson.com [157.226.71.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AB7643FE9 for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2003 13:17:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from DavidJohnson@Siemens.com) Received: from mvaexch02 ([157.226.230.209]:3116 helo=mvaexch02.acuson.com) by zeus.acuson.com with esmtp (Exim 4.14) id 1AH8YZ-00019s-4m; Tue, 04 Nov 2003 13:17:43 -0800 Received: by mvaexch02.acuson.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2657.72) id ; Tue, 4 Nov 2003 13:13:33 -0800 Received: from dhcp-46-145.acuson.com ([157.226.46.145]) by mvaexch01.acuson.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2657.72) id VDNM9WT5; Tue, 4 Nov 2003 13:12:32 -0800 From: Johnson David To: "Devon H. O'Dell" Organization: Siemens Medical Systems Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2003 13:15:59 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <200311041029.07614.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> <3FA7F18F.9060100@sitetronics.com> In-Reply-To: <3FA7F18F.9060100@sitetronics.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200311041315.59404.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> X-Scanner: exiscan for exim4 (http://duncanthrax.net/exiscan/) *1AH8YZ-00019s-4m*fk7OMa.msgo* cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I can't believe he said that! X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2003 21:17:54 -0000 On Tuesday 04 November 2003 10:35 am, Devon H. O'Dell wrote: > And, sorry to say it, but for most computer consumers, Windows > continues to be the right product line. I agree with you, but making it a self-fulfilling prophecy by proclaiming it direct from the executive offices of the world's largest Linux distributor is crazy. I can understand why Redhat doesn't want to provide support for their discontinued "consumer" line of shrink-wrapped CDs, but it doesn't need to come out and publicly say something this tactless. By discontinuing Redhat Linux at the same day he said this, Szulik is implying that Redhat thinks Linux will NEVER be ready for the consumer. It's one thing to tell an individual customer that you don't have a solution for their particular need. I've done that myself back when I was in sales. But that's a far cry from announcing to the world to go elsewhere. That statement of Szulik's is going to be quoted by Microsoft for the next decade. David