Steve Bergman said: > On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 18:09, William Hooper wrote: >> Howard Owen said: > >> >> So they understand that keeping up with Errata on a distro is time >> consuming and costly. It doesn't make sense for them to do this on >> their >> own, but they think it makes sense for Red Hat to do it and give it to >> them for free? >> > > It obviously made sense to RedHat when RedHat was a company of ~100 > employees. But it does not make sense now that RedHat is a larger > company of over 600 employees. A lot of things that made sense during the dot-com bubble don't make sense now... Looks like this is turning into a flame war. I'm not part of Red Hat's decision making process, so I can't help you with what motivates them to do what they do. I was just giving an alternative view to "Red Hat needs to give us no cost software supported forever..." -- William Hooper
