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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.

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.

If SCO prevails, you guys will be relegated to selling disks on street corners.

Even if as you say for the sake of argument SCO prevails in its suit against IBM, and IBM is forced to pay a large amount of damages to SCO and the Linux kernel is considered 'tainted' what happens? Now, I do not personally believe that this will be the outcome, and my professional opinion is that SCO's claims of ownership of NUMA, SMP, JFS, and XFS are unfounded. But for the sake of argument what if? Do you know what happens? Every body switches to BSD. Life goes on as usual.

I see you are busily trying to re-direct the discussion here to something other than the subject of the article, which is how the flaws in Microsoft software are causing companies to abandon their products to find something better.

I understand why you might wish to re-direct a discussion away from the flaws in Microsoft software. You would surely prefer that people talk about SCO and stuff, but you know, there really are flaws in Microsoft software and that's really what this article was about. So to Hell with what you said, I insist on discussing the flaws in Microsoft software.

Did you see where the article talks about customers angry about the persistent security concerns? Can you blame them?

I think that instead of responding to your comments about linux, I'll just keep referring to the many documented flaws in Microsoft software, if for no other reason than to taunt you like a Happy Fun Ball.