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To: Gerald Walls who wrote (1147)	9/10/1999 2:43:00 AM
From: Mitch Blevins	Respond to of 1794

Let me rephrase myself... There was no one that I knew and respected who seemed concerned one way or the other about the RedHat IPO. There is always some blowhard spouting off on the net about almost any issue, but I tend to filter these things out, which may make me a poor judge of public opinion. I also tend to discount the thousands of posts from slashdot-kiddies. shrug I am not sayig that there is not a competitive spirit. For example, if you go to irc://irc.openprojects.net/#debian , you will find that the channel-bot chastises you if you talk about RedHat or SlackWare. But, this is all in fun... we still gladly use the software they produce, and they gladly use ours. Why do you think they tried to "reward" Linux developers with shares in the IPO? My guess is public relations and wheel-greasing. Am I close? :) -Mitch

To: Gerald Walls who wrote (1147)	9/10/1999 11:22:00 AM
From: Thomas A Watson	Respond to of 1794

Dear Gerald, having known Bob Young for several years and had discussions with several at Rhat the reason for the IPO consideration was... hmmmmm OH yeah the most accurate words to describe it are. Altruism and Gratitude. If you are ignorant of Linux then you can be a cynic. None that I know and I know most of the key kernel developers has any anything but positive amused opinions of Rhat. If you are not a techno nerd weiney you probably do not comprehend what positive amused means. Msft is a generic cut throat community. Linux is a meritocracy community. Friendship and loyalty and a deep appreciation of contribution runs very deep and come very close to standard family ties. If Rhat no longer has merit they will wither, else they will continue to grow and I may double my present 3 dollar a share valuation to 6 dollars a share. But Redhat is a child of the Linux community and the technical parents of a child will love it and console it and scold it and as long as it does not become to rebelious to core values it will grow in love respect and loyalty and shareholder value. Some voices have merit and I'm always interested in hearing from Mitch. Tom Watson tosiwmee PS I've found that in rhat 5.2 and in 6.0 the mtools don't work correctly(well they don't work in any way that I can figure out). Specifically that mdel a: will no longer erase all files on fd0, in fact no globals get recognized and I can only delete by exact file name. I erased mtools from /usr/bin and deleted all the soft m... command files. I then copied a mtools binary from an older slackware system and recreated all the softlink m... commands. This works fine. But how do you get the mtools installed with redhat to work???