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To: Victor Lazlo who wrote (73519)	8/12/1999 10:06:00 PM
From: 10K a day	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

Victor.. REDHat... More I think about it... I think it's a Train wreck ready to happen. I mean, Value added Revenues to a Free Product. And a free product with COMPETITION, no less... It's Like... I've Got some Free copy and paste code, Id'e like to sell you for a couple billion... Yesssiree LOL! and the justifications i hear are... OH it's too much information to Download all at once.. or what if there is an internet traffic jam, while downloading.... and you get cut off... PUhLEEEeeeaaaaZZZe!! LOL!! I mean, If you're sophisticated enough to run on a shell, I mean, I think you could probably figure out a way, to get freeware...LOL!

To: Victor Lazlo who wrote (73519)	8/12/1999 11:00:00 PM
From: 16yearcycle	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 164684

Victor, It seems obvious to me and other investors I am close to that Linux is more likely to destroy Suns' unix based business than Msft and it's more consumer oriented software products. Why the crowd doesn't see this is beyond me.

To: Victor Lazlo who wrote (73519)	8/12/1999 11:03:00 PM
From: HG	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

I don't know Victor, but as you say, anything to dig MSFT. And I don't think its just Sun trying to "get them", the whole business community as such would like a change IMO, so there may be a lot of support from a lot of places. I'm not sure how this may tie up with their Solaris etc...... I don't know or care about RHAT except that as a pure speculative play it will make people rich or poor (depending on which side you are on and when ). Linux as a product is great IMO as a competitor to NT but in the absence of ownership....who knows ???? Esp when more like RHAT come along....