On Wednesday 05 November 2003 05:03, Tahir Hashmi wrote:
Next LUG meet: 9 Nov 2003 around 4 pm - VJTI
J. T. D'souza wrote:
Harvesting open source. Everbody does the hard work and RH then repackages the good stuff and sells to the enterprise.
Aha! That's their shiny new strategy? I'm impressed. Oh wait, what were they doing so far then?
pretending that they were doing something higher.
OFFCOURSE they are providing you some sort of meeting ground and maybe some crummy servers (leftovers from the enterprise dept.?) which they are likely to shut when it starts hitting their bottom line.
:O Sounds like insider info. Is it true?
Pure conjecture
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Debian also provides you everything that RHE does and doesnt charge you a cent. Further policy is not bent to pay somebody fat salaries nor tailored to fit bottom lines. So why bother with RH?
Because it "works out of the box." I prefer deviating from a default configuration that just works and customizing to my heart's content rather than going the other way round. Yeah, tell me I'm not adventurous enough.
Debian works out of the box too. So does Knoppix, Slackware and a host of other distros.
RedHat has contributed some good things and sometimes they were flamed too but I like them for precisely that - anaconda, gcc 2.96, bluecurve, metacity and so on. They get new stuff out before many others.
Fedora is "sponsored by RedHat" and is a "proving ground for new technology." What part of that sounds problematic?
What do they suppose that the rest of the libre software world is doing?.
My point is that a commercial distro wont be around to support when you need them. So SMEs and individuals dont touch a commercial distro with a barge pole. Instead use Debian and contribute your money to Debian or FSF India.