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Once again, wrong. Many of the Red Hat developers will continue on with Fedora. This is where new software will be introduced and refined. This has always been the case, but until now that project was call "rawhide". Rawhide's goals will be merged into Fedora.

Red Hat is not walking away from Fedora. They are going to cultivate the name brand "Red Hat" to be identified with the Enterprise. But that's just a marketing move. They have the most recognized name in Linux. They're going to more protective of that name now.

IBM and Novell re-committed their support to Linux this week with the announcement that Novell has purchased Suse Linux. IBM has invested $50 million dollars in this new venture. What is interesting here is that Novell is legally immune from the SCO lawsuit, and they now own a Linux distro.

The last thing you are missing is that Linux is just a kernel. A great deal of the other stuff in the distro has been developed by the GNU Herd project, Apache, MySQL, and countless independents. They aren't going away either.

If the Linux kernel died tomorrow in a courtroom there are alternatives that would be plugged in it's place. But of course, that means SCO has to prove their case in 2 separate court cases, and potentially more soon. IBM seems quite confident that no code theft has taken place - IBM is pushing 2 separate motions for discovery, and SCO has missed deadlines to deliver discovery materials. SCO is attacking the GPL as "illegal and unconstitutional" - but if by some slim chance they succeed, they still lose. SCO has distributed code under that GPL, and would suddenly be guilty of copyright infringement. The GPL was the only permission they had from scores of developers to sell code contributed to GNU/Linux.

You remind me of the Dems who underestimate Bush. They continue to lose ground in each election. Linux is here to stay. It's not trivial. There are and will be heavy hitters behind it's continued development.

Once again, wrong. Many of the Red Hat developers will continue on with Fedora. This is where new software will be introduced and refined. This has always been the case, but until now that project was call "rawhide". Rawhide's goals will be merged into Fedora. Red Hat is not walking away from Fedora. They are going to cultivate the name brand "Red Hat" to be identified with the Enterprise. But that's just a marketing move. They have the most recognized name in Linux. They're going to more protective of that name now.

I suppose if you've gotta hold onto something, you might as well hold onto that delusion. Because that's what it is. RedHat is turning Fedora into precisely the same thing that Netscape turned Mozilla into: a marginalized, low-budget also-ran that few people use.

IBM and Novell re-committed their support to Linux this week with the announcement that Novell has purchased Suse Linux.

I actually give Novell a lot of credit for taking over Suse. If anybody has a chance of succeeding here, it's Novell, not Fedora. Investment dollars speak louder than lame-ass freeware promises.

The last thing you are missing is that Linux is just a kernel. A great deal of the other stuff in the distro has been developed by the GNU Herd project, Apache, MySQL, and countless independents. They aren't going away either.

So what. The thing that makes Windows pervasive is the fact that it integrates all of those elements well enough for the average person to use. Linux hasn't succeeded in that space because it's generally recognized as being immature from an integration standpoint. Fedora doesn't help its cause.

If the Linux kernel died tomorrow in a courtroom there are alternatives that would be plugged in it's place.

If SCO prevails, you guys will be relegated to selling disks on street corners. The corporate investment which got you here will dry up immediately, if that happens.