On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 02:27, Manuel Moreno wrote: > On Sun, 2006-06-11 at 16:49 -0500, Thomas Cameron wrote: > ... > > I don't know about CentOS's release cycle. IMHO, even though they are > > technically true to the letter of the GPL, I think that they do > > is a blatant ripoff of all the hard work that Red Hat does in creating > > FC and then RHEL. If you want RHEL, spend the bucks and get it. It is > > Thus, following your argument one step further, RHEL is a blatant rip > off of all the hard work that Linux developers/users/hackers do in > creating Linux, FC, RH, RHEL, etc. ;-) And more to the point these days, there is now serious competition from Ubuntu with it's recently released 6.0.6 version with planned 5 year update support - with no obligation to buy a support contract. If someone uses Centos there is at least some chance they will eventually want to buy a RHEL with support. If they move to a version with a different administration style they probably won't ever use RH. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
