[wplug] Whither Open Source?

[Chris Romano]

On 5/13/05, Rob Knapp <myddrin at myddrin.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-05-13 at 08:59 -0400, Greg Simkins wrote:
> > Maybe RMS isn't such a lunatic after all.  Microsoft to buy Redhat?:
> > http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=1369&tag=nl.e539
> >
> > Once again, lawyers may be standing in the way of freedom.  Maybe RMS'
> > approach is only way to keep these guys off your back.
> 
> I'm not sure how MS buying a single open source company is the end of
> Open Source... even if Red Hat is gone, all the work they poured into
> linux is still there for use by any of the plethora of open source
> companies (Novell, Mandrake, Progeny, just to name a very few).
> 
> Could you please connect the dots for me?  What am I missing?
> 

If MS bought Red Hat, I would image that a lot of Red Hat Customers
would change distros as fast as they can.  I know I would.  It could
be a good thing for Novell, I am sure a lot of admins would switch to
SUSE or Novell Linux Desktop.

Chris