What do you think of Centos

[Christofer C. Bell]

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."