by To correct the mispostings of our flatworm friend:
"In 1996 or 1997, we won this big award from
InfoWorld, we tied with Windows NT as the best
server operating system. The people who were
most shocked by this were those of us at Red Hat,
because there were 23 of us, including the
receptionist, in the tobacco fields of North
Carolina at the time. And Microsoft had put a
billion dollars into NT, and they'd started the
project three years before Red Hat was even
formed, and the best they could do was to tie
us for the damn award. Who rewrote the laws of
economics?"
"I used to stand up in front of Linux crowds and
say, "Linux will never be successful on the
desktop," and of course I'd get booed off the
stage. And I finally realized the mistake I was
making. Linux will not be successful on the PC
replacing Windows OS. But we absolutely will be
successful on the desktop as a geographic location."