What do you think of Centos
Robert F. Chapman
robert_chapman at maximhq.com
Wed Feb 22 17:18:15 UTC 2006
I agree with the comments below. I think it is important however, that
we have people with an "out of the box approach" making additions to
what Redhat has started. Sometimes making drastic direction changes to
a distro is difficult with out re-spinning the distro.
If a re-spin is done, then I think it should be upto the distro
maintainers to maintain their sources separate from Redhat, and not just
respin every update/release of Redhat's RPMS. If your name goes on the
box, I think you should be making major contributions and maintaining
that distro and not just putting your name on it.
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Robert
On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 10:41 -0600, Christofer C. Bell wrote:
> On 2/22/06, linux.whiz at gmail.com <linux.whiz at gmail.com> 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.
>
> --
> Chris
>
> "I trust the Democrats to take away my money, which I can afford. I
> trust the Republicans to take away my freedom, which I cannot."
>
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