Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 20th Dec 2002 12:41 UTC
"The Open Source community's answer is to ignore Microsoft's incredible technological lead - because it is proprietary and not a standard - and instead focusses on their own cool thing and self-gratifying cool features, because they think they can do better (which is where the ignorance combined with ego comes in)." Join the discussion at Advogato.
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Like MS runs the project that creates Windows.
Redhat and SuSE etc..etc.. do NOT run the projects that are needed to create a Linux system.
If all the linux companies went out of business tommorrow then linux development would slow to a crawl. However, linux itself would remain intact.
Redhat is a distribution of the linux OS.
Linux is made up of all these programs, services and packages. Redhat owns and runs almost none of them.
The projects, and programs are developed by people.
Some of the people are employees of Redhat, Ximian, IBM and others.
However, the maintainers of the projects do not answer to any of those companies.
Most of the people started the projects in their spare time and do NOT get paid to do them. They code these projects because they want to. Because they think it is fun. Those maintainers run the projects. They make decisions based on what they think the project and code needs.
Not Redhat, or SuSE or Ximian needs.
Samba will support Active directories soon. This will help you. If you are going to put out a file server that will be used by Windows desktops and for the project you need Active directories then Windows is your best choice right now.