Fedora Project: Announcing New Direction

Michael Lee Yohe michael.yohe at us.army.mil
Mon Sep 22 18:48:59 UTC 2003


> 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

We can all sit around and troll over this decision.  But the beauty of
open source is the freedom of choice.  If you don't agree with Red Hat's
decision - go to Mandrake, Debian, Gentoo, SuSE or any other brand under
the sun.

Red Hat has to make the best decision to promote its services and
products to maintain business viability.  It also has to expand the
ability for the open source community to contribute to the distribution
as a whole.

The Red Hat community has wanted a Mandrake Cooker or a Debian Unstable
for years.  The employees at Red Hat cannot dedicate all of their time
supporting new programs that have had little exposure to wide-spread
use.  Otherwise, Red Hat Bugzilla would be filled with meaningless bug
reports about less-quality-than-a-Yugo software packages.

-- 
Michael Lee Yohe <michael.yohe at us.army.mil>
U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command Software Engineering Directorate





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