full-disclosure - Fw: Red Hat Linux end-of-life update and tr ansition planning

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Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.43.0311051512450.13083-100000@tundra.winternet.com>
From: dufresne at winternet.com (Ron DuFresne)
Subject: Fw: Red Hat Linux end-of-life update and tr
 ansition planning

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> >
> > Looks like redhat sold their soul to the devil.
> >
> >http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39117575,00.htm
> >Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers
> >Red Hat's chief executive has said that Windows will remain
> >the right platform for home users, at least until Linux has
> >had more time to mature.
>
> Or it's a very clever marketing ploy that implies that "RedHat is the
> right choice now for the enterprise".
>

What's interesting, is this is pretty much what Fred Avolio said in his
recent monthly newsletter.  In which he mentions having bought a linux <It
was a cheapo Lycoris system from wal mart or k-mart> just to check  this out;

http://www.avolio.com/  [netsec-letter] #30, The Microsoft Factor Part 2

and;

http://www.avolio.com/weblog/2003/10/08#linuxdesktop.)

Thanks,

Ron DuFresne
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