Fedora Project: Announcing New Direction

[Otto Haliburton]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-devel-list-admin at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-devel-list-
> admin at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Michael Lee Yohe
> Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 1:49 PM
> To: fedora-devel-list at redhat.com
> Subject: RE: Fedora Project: Announcing New Direction
> 
> > 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
> 
No one is blaming or not blaming RHEL.  I was just giving what IMHO think is
their reasoning.  It can be an advantage or a disadvantage IMHO.  There is
no reason to be less than enthusiastic about this development.