[PLUG] Microsoft school opens in Gresham

[lemming at attbi.com]

Carla Schroder writes
> On Karl wrote:
>> Carla Schroder writes:
>>> There's a rather large difference between
>>> running an honest business, and doing
>>> what Microsoft does.
>>
>> How much of the revenue that Red Hat rakes
>> in gets put in the pockets of the people
>> who actually write and maintain the software
>> that Red Hat merely PACKAGES for
>> distribution (and sale)?
> 
> Speaking of non-sequiturs...that's a
> gold-medal winner. What illegal, strong-arm
> tactics has Red Hat committed? How many
> laws have they broken? How many customers
> have they bullied and extorted? What is
> your point?
> 
> Red Hat is one of the largest funders of
> Linux development. That's right, actual cash
> money to programmers. Can you show me where
> they demand royalties from projects they have
> funded? You can't- because they don't.
> 
>  When they rolled out their IPO they
> distributed stock grants to as many developers
> as they could find. I'm not sure what your
> point is- doubtless they have their flaws,
> but comparing them to Microsoft is absurd. 
> 
> Yes, they package and sell free software. They
> also give it away- download for free, dirt cheap
> from Cheapbytes, legally copied and distributed
> by friends. As do all of the commercial Linux
> distributors. If you can show me a gun pointed to
> anyone's head anywhere, I'll be quite surprised.

Plus 
http://newsforge.com/newsforge/02/08/06/2217204.shtml?
tid=4  which is in Redhat's interest, but helps all 
Linux distributions as well.

-Mark