OT: I feel vindicated ...

[Michael Hipp]

Andrew Mathews wrote:
> Paid support vs. self supported? Yes, that's an apple to orange
> comparison. So what? The point is, the same people who complain that
> they were "abandoned" by Redhat never had anything invested in them to
> begin with. The same thing happened with Caldera, though they went on to
> alienate *all* of their customer base, not just the freeloaders. How
> many of the same people who voiced so loudly that they had been screwed
> by Redhat ever contributed a single line of code? When's the last time
> they checked a patch into the kernel tree? Yet they profess superiority
> because they learned how to "automatically build stuff" on a nightly
> basis. Big deal. It's a shell script and a cron job. Show me code if
> they want credibility, otherwise get of the "holier than thou" podium,
> it's embarrassing the community.

I'm not sure who you're talking about as I didn't see anyone saying such 
things in this thread.

I'm the one who said "abandoned" but I *did* have something invested in 
them. In the form of money. I bought their product and paid for updates 
and support. (Not that it was a lot, but I'm the smallest of small fry.)

But that's the outward stuff. Inwardly I had spent a lot of time 
learning their stuff. And had told lots of people "Use Red Hat, they're 
the biggest and the best."

BTW, you're reading this "vindication" stuff entirely the wrong way. 
Speaking only for myself: I'm not vindicated in saying someone's choice 
of distro is bad. And why would they be so stupid as to use RH.

I'm vindicated because I said when they made this move that it was a 
mistake, the community said it was a mistake, I said they were leaving 
people like me unserved. They have now admitted that we were all right 
about that all along.

I'm not glad to see RH stumble. I'm glad to see them heading back on the 
right track. I want them to win and be strong (that is, if they do it 
the *right* way). We need them. They need "us".

But no-one I've read here is criticizing your choice of distro.

Michael