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Technology Stocks : LINUX -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Rusty Johnson who wrote (2010)	12/23/1999 4:03:00 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2617

Well Rusty, several weeks ago I exchanged email's with a Linux billionaire I know concerning what I thought was a very questionable decision made by Redhat concerning what I call the quality of Life of the Linux user. The specifics were the removal of the xv graphics program and the substitution of ee an application with a redhat logo and substancialy inferior functionality. I've yet to hear what if anything redhat will do to address this disservice to new Linux users. Tom Watson tosiwmee

To: Rusty Johnson who wrote (2010)	12/23/1999 7:54:00 PM
From: E. Charters	Respond to of 2617

One tang's fer shure, yew KANNOT become zie billionaire by selling der FRIE ZOFTWARE! It KANNOT bie done. Nope no way. I don't believe a word of it. But you ought to see something. One time I was in this counterculture, free-the-hippies, University type bookstore. So I looks over the FRIE software counter, and there they are all sorts of CD's. You could get FRIE software on just about any subject known to man. FRIE BSD, FRIE Linux, FRIE Grafiks, and on and one. So, you know what I did? I bought about 4 diskettes of one gigiebyte each of absolutely free code. No way I was going to copy the stuff by hand! And it only cost me $160.00 for four packages. Dirt cheap. So when I get home I looked at the product literature. There is was one whole colour page of advertising for absolutely indispensable home grown FRIE code of all kinds. Over 30 software CD's that you could not do without and it would only cost me $1200.00 dollars to get them all. Cheap. Dirt Cheap. But instead I went down there and bought a book on how to set up a Beowulf Cluster. That set me back about $100.00 Once I get my cluster set up I will go back and buy all the other free software. I don't know how anybody is going to make any money selling the stuff but I will keep buying it as long as it saves me money. EC<:-}