Hi Rodolfo,
On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 10:49:01 -0600
"Rodolfo J. Paiz" <rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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???
You got a point; indeed, I didn't feel any safer after reading your
message... ={ I didn't fully understand the relationship between RH and
WBEL, TL etc. was based on 'generosity'. Better rethink the whole thing.
Thks,
Andre
--
Andre Oliveira da Costa
