On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 14:37, Otto Haliburton wrote:
Actually, RHL is taking the same exit from the open source community
that
SCO did. RHL wants to be commercial and one of the obstacles to being
commercial is to have your source being developed by the open source
community (that doesn't mean that it is bad in anyway), because you don't
control the license or the patent so you are limited as to what you can
charge i.e. RHL can only profit from support and not from the sell of the
product. So the model is to drop the open source community and adopt a
product which you license and patent and raise the price. Exactly what SCO
did.
What the heck are you smoking? Fedora is 100% open source. Redhat's
commercial product is the exact samething, just with older/more-tested
packages and some tweaks, for the most part. If I recall, RHEL is
*also* 100% open source. There is no dumping of open source anywhere in
this picture.
Fedora Linux *is* "Redhat Linux", just with a different name and a
*more* open development model.
Sheesh.
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Sean Middleditch <elanthis(a)awesomeplay.com>
AwesomePlay Productions, Inc.