Ubuntu founder doesn't "get" enterprise Linux

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Thu, 1 Feb 2007, Les Mikesell wrote:

> Martin Marques wrote:
>
>> BTW, Les said nobody developed extra things for RHEL, which is not true. 
>> Just look a Dag and Dries rpms repository. Those are "newer desktop apps 
>> into the stable kernel/libs from RHEL" as was quoted.
>
>
> If it wasn't clear, what I meant was that no one takes the complete existing 
> RHEL work and adds things to improve it, redistributing the entire bundle. 
> That may not match anyone else's definition of 'open', but it is what affects 
> the products you'll be able to use in the future.

Sure they do.  CentOS does, in fact.  Look at CentOS Extras, CentOS Plus, 
CentOS Cluster Suite/Global File System.  Look at Scientific Linux 
customizations https://www.scientificlinux.org/about/customize.

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 		Matthew Saltzman

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