Rajkumar S said on Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 09:49:19AM +0530,:
The hypocrisy element comes when he advocates the use of free software (snip) ... and uses another OS in his laptop.
But then, the laptop was supplied by the Government, is it not?
And do not govt. tenders calling for digital hardware almost always read `Tender for supply of personal computers with Genuine I***l processor at XbambaHz with W*****s ?? preinstalled', ??? MB Ram and ?? GB hard disk'.
How do we tackle these kinds of tener notices?
Ramanraj? Any inputs from you? Any idea how the industry will respond when a public institution invites tenders for `35MM tor steel from TISCO?? Or `supply of N thousand V******n Televisions'?
Any businessess on this list who want to rspond to such tenders with Free software preinstalled on another processor??
As far as RH CEO is concerned, he is talking in line with his company objectives, they are hardly in Desktop market :)
It is a good thing RH ceo said that*. Now, desktop users who purchased s/w from RH can buy support from other vendors. *That* is what we call *freedom*.
We can point this out next time some one seeks to counter pro free software moves with the RH ceo's statement.
(*) I am not very sure. Did he really *mean* that? I remember that statement was clarified later on? Anyways, KDE and GNOME are far more usable on my box than the various boxen I have used at my Department and net kiosks.