On Sat, 19 Apr 2003 15:53:20 -0500
Trey
I don't mean this in a mean way but the only reason RH is the " biggest" distribution is because Americans think they must " buy American ".
I think this is bull. While there is certainly a "buy American" movement in the US, especially in the South, I don't think that has ever been the case with Linux. There are several other American distributions (such as Caldera and Debian) that have never been able to make a big dent. Red Hat grew because its distributions were in the right place at the right time, and because of some decent marketing. Many of the engineers at HP (formerly Digital) are and were SuSE users. One problem I see is that some people (and businesses) equate Red Hat and Linux.
i'll bet you microsoft will soon use that in there attack againts linux. in fact if i remeber ballmer once said that linux was not the "american way" whatever the hell that means