Fedora Project: Announcing New Direction

Otto Haliburton ottohaliburton at comcast.net
Mon Sep 22 18:59:18 UTC 2003


> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-devel-list-admin at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-devel-list-
> admin at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Sean Middleditch
> Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 1:47 PM
> To: fedora-devel-list at redhat.com
> Subject: RE: Fedora Project: Announcing New Direction
> 
> 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.
> --
> Sean Middleditch <elanthis at awesomeplay.com>
> AwesomePlay Productions, Inc.
> 
> 
> --

The question is "What are you smoking".  If that was the case why make the
change????????






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