"Most open source is imitation," Carey says. "Linux is an imitation of an operating system. If these [Linux] companies are going to create a price point that is significant enough that they are approaching the same pricing model as the innovation premium, why pay a premium for imitation when I can pay a premium and get innovation?"
Matthew Szulik, chief executive of Red Hat, says Carey's views do not represent those of most Red Hat customers. But in the same conversation, Szulik says he'd love it if Red Hat could become the next Microsoft. "Who wouldn't want to be Microsoft?" he asks
"The vendors are changing, the licensing models are changing," Carey says. "The companies doing these Linux distributions are trying to make money by taking away the freedom of Linux. I don't mean free as in cost. I mean free as in free speech. If you make me pay more for ten users than for three users, you're taking away some of my freedom. From the consumer perspective, that's not why we went into this. It was freedom of choice."
"Another danger is emerging. Although dozens of Linux distributions exist, switching from one to the other could become more difficult as companies like Red Hat and its rival, SuSE, which is owned by Novell (nasdaq: NOVL - news - people ), attempt to differentiate their Linux distributions by developing new features. Once applications are written to work with a certain set of features, moving them to a different Linux distribution could require a lot of difficult and expensive rewriting."
Tout ce que je prédisais dans mon livre....La guerre des UNIX bis repetita....mais j'étais un nul qui racontait des conneries et qui n'y connaissait rien...point n'était besoin d'être grand devin ceci dit. Et des réflexions comme celles là, il va y en avoir de plus en plus...:-)
# Re: Une belle pièce de FUD
Posté par philippl . En réponse au journal Une belle pièce de FUD. Évalué à 1.
Matthew Szulik, chief executive of Red Hat, says Carey's views do not represent those of most Red Hat customers. But in the same conversation, Szulik says he'd love it if Red Hat could become the next Microsoft. "Who wouldn't want to be Microsoft?" he asks
"The vendors are changing, the licensing models are changing," Carey says. "The companies doing these Linux distributions are trying to make money by taking away the freedom of Linux. I don't mean free as in cost. I mean free as in free speech. If you make me pay more for ten users than for three users, you're taking away some of my freedom. From the consumer perspective, that's not why we went into this. It was freedom of choice."
"Another danger is emerging. Although dozens of Linux distributions exist, switching from one to the other could become more difficult as companies like Red Hat and its rival, SuSE, which is owned by Novell (nasdaq: NOVL - news - people ), attempt to differentiate their Linux distributions by developing new features. Once applications are written to work with a certain set of features, moving them to a different Linux distribution could require a lot of difficult and expensive rewriting."
Tout ce que je prédisais dans mon livre....La guerre des UNIX bis repetita....mais j'étais un nul qui racontait des conneries et qui n'y connaissait rien...point n'était besoin d'être grand devin ceci dit. Et des réflexions comme celles là, il va y en avoir de plus en plus...:-)