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Posted by: Andrew Meredith (Thursday 8 March 2007, 6:20 PM)

Fed up ..

See other thread for rebuttal of simplistic arguments based around the misuse of the word "Free" by those who haven't been concentrating.

I am confused about your comments viz Red Hat. In one breath you are slating them as not capitalistic enough because they deal in free software and then slating them because they want paying for their services. You really haven't thought this one out that well have you.

I also find it interesting that you know Linux, Solaris, HPUX and AIX well enough to be able to make judgements about their relative merits. Inaccurate judgements though they may be, if the fact that they are all losing market share hand over fist to Linux is anything to go by.

Mandrake did indeed go bust a few times; after they saw an opportunity and made some money, they then failed to compete. IBM made the biggest yearly loss in corporate history a few years back, before they slimmed down, took another look at the industry and started taking Open Source a bit more seriously. Maybe you should point them towards the error of their ways.

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