Re: Penguin Computing & LinuxCare

["Aaron D. Turner" <aturner@pobox.com>]

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Micah,

Good luck in the job!

One thing though...  There's some bad blood between VA and PC (aparently
not friendly competitors) and VA asked me to not work a sponsorship deal
with PC for the LKB.  Figured I was safe, so I happily said yes.  Oh well.  
I just love politics (sic), but alas, humans are policitcal animals.

As for Linux Care and the rest of the LKB's in the world, I really don't
think they have anything to offer us.  Our model is drastically different
from theirs.  Ours is a de-centralized content model, everyone else's is a
centralized model.  They want to keep control, we want to give out
control.

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On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Micah Yoder wrote:

> A couple things...
> 
> I was talking a bit to Sam Ockman of Penguin Computing.  I E-mailed him
> after seeing their jobs page, which really interested me.  I mentioned I
> was working on the Linux Knowledge Base (they're interested in people
> who are active in the Linux community).  He said he'd love to sponsor
> us!  I wrote back saying VA already donated the box and we have an ISP,
> but that maybe we'd need a mirror at some point.  He hasn't written back
> since, but I think he's pretty busy with the conference.  Do we need
> anything that they might be able to provide?  It would be sort of nice
> if we could promote two or more Linux system vendors (probably on
> different mirrors).
> 
> I suppose you've all noticed that LinuxCare is making their support DB
> public.  Obviously a good thing.  Perhaps we should talk to them and
> tell them what we're doing.  I bet they don't have the infrastructure
> that we're making, and their content would sure help us!  I also expect
> we'll have more categories than they will, especially if we include
> programming information (and I certainly hope so).
> 


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