Re: FC1 on the enterprise?

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



At 08:40 1/16/2004, you wrote:
I am not really sure this is going to happen... since FC2 will be the
1st opportunity to test it, I guess I would be safer going for the
rhel-based alternatives.

Really?

Have you considered that Red Hat puts enormous effort into Fedora, and that their profits and business income depend on RHEL? That Red Hat is only obligated under GPL to provide the source //to those to whom it provides binaries//, and that their providing the RHEL source publicly (in neatly-packaged SRPMS, no less) is an unnecessary act of generosity?

And finally, have you considered that Red Hat could cease providing public SRPMS or even public source for RHEL at any time if they feel that their income stream is threatened by WBEL or other alternatives? Then how are you going to get updates? Are they going to patch, test, QA, and replicate all that software themselves?

How, oh how, do you feel this is safer???


-- Rodolfo J. Paiz rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.simpaticus.com




[Index of Archives]     [Current Fedora Users]     [Fedora Desktop]     [Fedora SELinux]     [Yosemite News]     [Yosemite Photos]     [KDE Users]     [Fedora Tools]     [Fedora Docs]

  Powered by Linux