RedHat, Fedora future?

[William Hooper]

Austin Isler said:

> Why drop the the RHL line if you just turn around and have products like
> RHPW. RHL became a familiar line, and I think it would have just been
> better to implement the features of RHPW into RHL and package it as
> that. (IMO)

Well, first off is marketing.  "Red Hat" now means the "Enterprise" line. 
Fedora can be freely distributed by third parties without diluting the
"Red Hat" trademark (remember all the crap they got about that?).

Then there is removing demo RHN accounts.  This allows the paying
customers to get the bandwidth they need without breaking the bank.

Then the fact is that RHPW _is_ RHEL WS, just with different support
options.  RHL was a separate code base.

There where also a number of people that were complaining that RHL didn't
have new enough packages, so the Fedora Linux project was born to help
fill that need.  Red Hat can focus on their Enterprise line but still
allow their employees to contribute to Fedora and (even more) help the
general community.

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William Hooper