Re: [cobalt-users] No Solaris Petition

[Dom Latter <d.latter@xxxxxxx>]

"Vachon, Scott" wrote:
> 
> >So essentially, besides market share, the Linux
> >community gains very little from Cobalt, while Cobalt gains a lot.
> 
> That's the "American way." Free enterprise, isn't it great ?!

Are the Cobalt add-ons not infected by the GPL anyway?

In any case I think that Cobalt has certainly done it's bit in moving
the image of Linux away from the "geek's toy".  It's not long ago that
a common theme on this list was "whatever you do, don't tell management 
it runs Linux - tell them that it's an appliance".

> I don't have a problem with Solaris or Sun but, I like the Cobalt product
> and the fact that it runs a Linux flavor. 

For me, it was that it was a pre-installed pre-configured Linux.
As long as I stick to doing stuff where I know what I'm doing, 
I'm confident that it will carry on.  Low cost of ownership was
the key.

-- 
Dom.