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From: "Victor Tsaran" <tsar@sylaba.poznan.pl>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: Will Redhat Become a Division of AOL Time-Warner?
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 17:28:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <00bc01c1a2a1$eb86d100$0100a8c0@Cybertsar> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0201200701250.844-100000@lnx3.holmesgrown.com>

Two hands in favor of the statement below.
Vic

----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Holmes" <steve@holmesgrown.com>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2002 3:07 PM
Subject: Re: Will Redhat Become a Division of AOL Time-Warner?


> That's what makes competition so important.  If AOL buys up Red Hat and
> ruins it like they do everything else, Just go to a different distro!
> While doing this, those who enjoy using Red Hat's environment should then
> write to AOL and tell them how they are switching to a different product.
>
> I for one, never use anything with AOL in it! I don't like their
> proprietary stance on so many things and how they fuck up every computer
> their software touches.  Case in point, just look at any computer that has
> the AOL internet explorer and other components on it.  I've talked to
> numerous people who installed AOL and how much trouble they had with their
> systems and how they couldn't get all the stuff out when trying to remove
> AOL.  IF Red Hat goes down that path, I wouldn't go near it with a ten
> foot pole!
>
> On Sun, 20 Jan 2002, Charles Crawford wrote:
>
> >          I wish I could be as optimistic.  Actually, we will have to
demand
> > that they keep the command line text runtime or they will simply do the
> > migration thing where the GUI is updated and the text is
> > forgotten.  Witness the disappearance of DOS.
> >
> > -- Charlie.
> >
> > >Linux already comes with a GUI, but it can safely be ignored.
> > >
> > >On Sat, 19 Jan 2002, David Poehlman wrote:
> > >
> > > > but of course, it won't be accessible because they'll slap a gui on
it
> > > > and lock it in.
> > > >
> > > >
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Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
 Janina Sajka
 ` David Poehlman
   ` William F. Acker WB2FLW +1-303-777-8123
     [not found]   ` <Pine.LNX.4.44.0201192021350.11396-100000@wb2flw.octothorp. org>
     ` Charles Crawford
       ` David Poehlman
       ` Steve Holmes
         ` Victor Tsaran [this message]
       ` Kirk Wood
         ` BTBG
         ` Need Moderator Help BTBG
           ` Geoff Shang
             ` Daisy Project was, " BTBG
               ` Amanda Lee
       ` Will Redhat Become a Division of AOL Time-Warner? Thomas Ward
         ` David Poehlman
         ` Ron Marriage
           ` Thomas Ward
           ` Kirk Wood
         ` Jason
           ` David Poehlman
             ` Kirk Wood
       ` Victor Tsaran
     [not found] <E16SMS8-0007yL-00@speech.braille.uwo.ca>
 ` Adam Myrow
   ` Thomas Ward
     ` Steve Holmes
       ` Terry Cudney
       ` Geoff Shang
   ` charles crawford
     ` Kirk Wood
       ` Thomas Ward

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