On 2/22/06, linux.whiz@xxxxxxxxx <linux.whiz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I personally think that the CentOS project and Whitebox and those re-spins > of RHEL are pretty much ripping off Red Hat. Red Hat spends a ton of money, > time and effort in making their enterprise distro. They give the entire > thing to the community via the Fedora project. As required by the terms of > the GPL, they release everything for RHEL as source RPMs. Then the clone > distros come along and respin them and give them away. > > While this is perfectly legal, I think it dilutes the value of what Red Hat > is doing. "Legal" does not necessarily mean "right." The respin distros > don't really innovate, they just leech off the work that Red Hat has done. > IMHO, if you want the benefit of Red Hat's work, you should support them by > either buying their products or using FC and contributing back to the > project. Even if that contribution is just filing bug reports or answering > questions on the mailing lists/forums, it is contributing back to Red Hat. > > Let's not forget how much Red Hat is spending to give us FC - I think we > should reward them for that however we can, not leech off them. I really really nate "me too" posts, but this is something I very strongly agree with. My sense of ethics prevents me from using or recommending any rip-off of RHEL. -- Chris "I trust the Democrats to take away my money, which I can afford. I trust the Republicans to take away my freedom, which I cannot."
