I agree with the comments below. I think it is important however, that we have people with an "out of the box approach" making additions to what Redhat has started. Sometimes making drastic direction changes to a distro is difficult with out re-spinning the distro. If a re-spin is done, then I think it should be upto the distro maintainers to maintain their sources separate from Redhat, and not just respin every update/release of Redhat's RPMS. If your name goes on the box, I think you should be making major contributions and maintaining that distro and not just putting your name on it. --- Robert On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 10:41 -0600, Christofer C. Bell wrote: > 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." >
