FC1 on the enterprise?

[Rodolfo J. Paiz]

At 08:40 1/16/2004, you wrote:
>I am not really sure this is going to happen... since FC2 will be the
>1st opportunity to test it, I guess I would be safer going for the
>rhel-based alternatives.

Really?

Have you considered that Red Hat puts enormous effort into Fedora, and that 
their profits and business income depend on RHEL? That Red Hat is only 
obligated under GPL to provide the source //to those to whom it provides 
binaries//, and that their providing the RHEL source publicly (in 
neatly-packaged SRPMS, no less) is an unnecessary act of generosity?

And finally, have you considered that Red Hat could cease providing public 
SRPMS or even public source for RHEL at any time if they feel that their 
income stream is threatened by WBEL or other alternatives? Then how are you 
going to get updates? Are they going to patch, test, QA, and replicate all 
that software themselves?

How, oh how, do you feel this is safer???


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Rodolfo J. Paiz
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