Are Platform Vendors Stealing Linux?

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Sep 27, 2010 7:50 AM EDT
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I don't think it's an accident that suddenly companies like Oracle and Amazon are looking at the success of Red Hat's support model and the advantages a locked OS/hardware scenario can present and are now trying to model their own business strategies in a similar fashion. Of course, such advantages are good for the companies, but not so much the end user. As I already pointed out, trying to un-do the commoditization of Linux does the customer a huge disservice, because you're essentially introducing vendor lock in again. Ultimately, I think the customers should get wise to this and resist such "tuned" versions of Linux.

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A little "stealing" isn't bad,... But lock-outs aren't JaseP 2 885 Sep 28, 2010 9:50 AM

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