Re: Sun (was Re: Hardware hassles: Linux vs. Windows)

[Alvin Oga <aoga@ns.Linux-Consulting.com>]

On Wed, 15 Dec 2004, Steve Lamb wrote:

> Ron Johnson wrote:
> > How in the heck do you buy a distro?  It's all (well, 99.99%) GPL.
> 
>      I dunno.  Ask Novell.

being GPL is "dangerous" ... the big boyz with $$$ can do and will
do what they want with all the (free) r/d work for the past few decades

and dangling $$$ in front of the "primary" people that controls the
servers or the infrastructure of that distro and that distro dies
overnight ( people are usually "buyable" )
	- suse is now "dead" .. and morphing into a new "novell" monster,
	nov-zilla

and remember mosaic ... which created gazillion similar permutations
of spinoffs and me too which made it into nasdaq/nyse based on
its "never been done before" but it became the norm. now lets
see what and how google methods changes how one gets "bigger"

c ya
alvin