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Slashdot: Rasterman leaves Red Hat

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
May 31, 1999

“I am so glad to get out of ths [sic] creativity-stifling
environemnt [sic] of RHAD LABS – away from certain people there who
see E and its userbase as what I can literally quote them saying a
“festering crowd”.

“I’ve tolerated this attitude towards E users for way too long.
I do not envisage much future support from Red Hat for
Enlightenment – they have been itching to get rid of E and will as
soon as they can. I don’t much care. They can do whatever they like
– and I wish them all the best but I do not fit in there. E does
not fit in there. They want a windows clone distribution and OS. I
do not. They don’t believe users really count – corporates and
“partners” count and what they percieve [sic] as the “business
world that wants an exact windows clone” counts.”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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