[OFFTOPIC] Re: where do I find w32 codecs and java

[Ric Moore]

On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 14:58 -0300, Pablo Barrera wrote:
> 
> 
> 2010/8/24 Ric Moore <wayward4now at gmail.com>
>         
>         .
>         >
>         > Red Hat was bright in times of Mathew Szulick, right now, is
>         another
>         > Mc Donalds, threathing community with
>         > "color glasses"
>         
>         
>         I hail from the days of Bob Young. When Mathew came on board,
>         his cube
>         was several down from mine. But, he wasn't a Bob Young type.
>         Good guy,
>         don't get me wrong, but there was less skate-boarding in the
>         halls and
>         networked Quake after he arrived. He was just more serious,
>         and with the
>         IPO, he had to be. Different styles. :) Ric
> 
> Yes, I Bob and Mathew had different types of vissions, but Mathew
> always was compromised with 
> Fedora and the work of make a grow of the community, this was the time
> when i founded Fedora in Argentina, when 
> the new CEO raises, the things change, not far from that, one month
> ago, one of the FAMSCO leaders in latinamerica left
> red hat and fedora project, because of lack of comprimise of red hat
> on university. 
> 
> I use Fedora and I love it, and I love the developers and people who
> help community, but i dont like red hat not anymore

Bob always had staff on the road to universities on the weekends, all
expenses paid, to hold install-fests, plus he'd get a truckload of
Domino's Pizza delivered to the events. He knew the owner who started
using Linux to save a bundle on store operations. Then we had the RedHat
Expo's every year. He was huge on the small user. That's where the devel
folks come from. Matt had to answer to stockholders. Different setup. 

I still know "Uncle Bob" and he's one helluva guy. Fedora came about to
try to un-alienate those who were peeved at the loss of the box set. I
did email support for that and got laid off when it ceased. Setting it
up, as they did, was probably a tax write off? I dunno. I think it was
all one huge mistake ...Bob had it right. Win their hearts and minds, so
when they become Admins they will stick with what they are used to. Same
as Windows users. Gates knows that too. :) Ric
  

-- 
My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say:
"There are two Great Sins in the world...
..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity.
Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad.
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