Wednesday, 03 May 2000
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I've become increasingly disaffected with Red Hat for various reasons, primarily because of its shoddy treatment of the free software development community. My old friends at Novare used to try to convince me that Red Hat was going to become the Microsoft of free software, I rejected that as unfounded and defeatist. But I have long maintained that for the long-term survival of the free software community globally, Debian is vastly more important than any commercial Linux distributor.
The fact that in many commercial circles Red Hat is thought of as synonymous with Linux rankles me, but it may not be that important in the long run. But at any rate hit the Red Hat is Not Linux! site to express your support for fair play for other commercial Linux distributions and for Debian too.
This is Red Hat Is Not Linux! <http://monkeyfist.com/articles/493>