Ubuntu founder doesn't "get" enterprise Linux

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Thu Feb 1 17:50:39 UTC 2007


Martin Marques wrote:

>>> OK, that's not really true. Mark is a sharp guy, and gets open source as
>>> well, indeed, better, than most. But he's completely wrong on his
>>> criticism of Red Hat (which Greg of the Fedora Project shoots down). His
>>> basic point? Because RHEL is a closed binary, it's proprietary.
>>>
>>> Full article at,
>>> http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2007/01/ubuntu_founder.html 
>>>

>> Going through my Fedora folder, I came back across this one. I have
>> never understood the comment. How is RHEL a "closed binary"? I'm having
>> a time making sense of that statement. No biggie, just curious as heck.
> 
> If RHEL was closed, CentOS wouldn't exist. :-D
> 
> So I would say that Mark really doesn't know what he's talking about.

If RHEL wasn't closed, CentOS wouldn't need to exist.  Please explain 
why I need to know the difference.

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com




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