The First?
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| bigg Apr 19, 2007 6:29 AM EDT |
> Michael Dell is almost certainly the first billionaire to embrace the penguin Larry Ellison isn't a billionaire? Interesting publicity stunt, but put a video on YouTube with him endorsing Linux, showing how he actually uses it for his daily activities. |
| Abe Apr 19, 2007 7:43 AM EDT |
Quoting:Michael Dell is almost certainly the first billionaire to embrace the penguin. Embrace? Well, how do you know that? Did he say that himself or we haven't heard? Is this just hype and sensationalism on SJVN's part similar to what Dell did a while back? Dell cried wolf too many times to believe them. Again, I will believe it when I see it. |
| qcimushroom Apr 19, 2007 7:43 AM EDT |
Every one has to start somewhere. |
| number6x Apr 19, 2007 8:15 AM EDT |
Shuttle worth is a US billionaire. In English based naming he is just a thousand-millionaire. In the US 10^9 is Billion, In England (and S.A.) that's just a Thousand Million. |
| DarrenR114 Apr 19, 2007 10:42 AM EDT |
I don't know that SJVN is given to "sensationalism" ... back last year he was saying that while he would like the rumors to be true, he sincerely doubted Oracle would release their own Linux distribution. A couple of weeks later, he had a large helping of crow to eat when Oracle released its "Unbreakable Linux". |
| jdixon Apr 19, 2007 10:45 AM EDT |
> ...he sincerely doubted Oracle would release their own Linux distribution. Well, he was largely correct, as Oracle didn't release their own distribution. They settled for re-badging Red Hat. |
| DarrenR114 Apr 19, 2007 11:40 AM EDT |
@jdixon, Mandrake got their start the same way, but I still consider Mandrake a separate distribution. Ditto with CentOS. |
| jdixon Apr 19, 2007 12:17 PM EDT |
> Mandrake got their start the same way... Mandrake started as Red Hat with KDE, compiled for Pentium level processors. that's not quite the same thing. They are similar to CentOS, I'll grant, but we'll have to wait and see if they offer the same quality. |
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