What do you think of Centos
taharka
res00vl8 at alltel.net
Wed Feb 22 17:37:29 UTC 2006
Howdy,
On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 10:41 -0600, Christofer C. Bell wrote:
> 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.
Me too posts don't bother me one bit ;-) Having said that, what say ye
to sense of pocketbook ethics for, small businesses/churches/charity
organizations/etc., po folk in general, that require a RHEL type
solution but, can't afford RHEL pricing & definitely not the $MS
solution?
Inquiring minds want to know ;-))
> --
> Chris
taharka
Lexington, Kentucky U.S.A.
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