On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 17:44, Steve Bergman wrote: > 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. !QED It made sense when development was slower, the number of packages was smaller, the number of RH distributions was smaller, and the number of users was a LOT smaller. With GNOME, KDE, a rapid moving set of additional packages, a MUCH larger packages set, a MUCH larger userbase wanting a lot more (such as Corporate Support agreements with SLAs, and people thinking RH should make backports to stuff that is a few years old for free), and years and years of RH distributions, it is a different animal. If it is so easy, feel free to go do it yourself and start rakind in the cash, man. Once you have, then you can say QED! Cheers, Bill -- Bill Anderson RHCE #807302597505773 bill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
