Re: tlug: Cygnus and Red Hat to merge

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>]

>>>>> "gray" == gray s <gray_s@example.com> writes:

    gray> Do you think this related to Laser5 dumping RedHat earlier
    gray> this year?

No.  Cygnus and Laser5 have completely different profiles.  From what
I've seen of Laser5, their goals and advantages mostly concern
Japanese localization, and Red Hat can't afford to take such a limited
view of things.  I'm sure Red Hat would have preferred a compromise;
Japanese internationalization expertise is not that easy to come by.
But they also can't afford to maintain a fully separate distribution
for Japanese, which is what Laser5 (IMO) will find itself committed to.

Cygnus, on the other hand, expands Red Hat's open source horizons far
beyond Linux.  I hope it will have a mellowing effect on _both_ the
Cygnus and the Red Hat libc developers ;-)  Remember, although glibc
is the heart of a GNU/Linux system (the kernel is the brain), Linux is 
only a small fraction of the systems that glibc supports.  And there's 
embedded systems (eCos), the development toolchain (gcc, gdb,
binutils, etc), hardware connections (especially chip manufacturers),
etc.

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