Howdy, 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. Me too posts don't bother me one bit ;-) Having said that, what say ye to sense of pocketbook ethics for, small businesses/churches/charity organizations/etc., po folk in general, that require a RHEL type solution but, can't afford RHEL pricing & definitely not the $MS solution? Inquiring minds want to know ;-)) > -- > Chris taharka Lexington, Kentucky U.S.A.
