Ubuntu founder doesn't "get" enterprise Linux

[Les Mikesell]

Matthew Saltzman 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.

No, they are required to remove things.  And they claim it is a 
non-trivial amount of work to comply.

> Look at CentOS Extras, CentOS 
> Plus, CentOS Cluster Suite/Global File System.  Look at Scientific Linux 
> customizations https://www.scientificlinux.org/about/customize.

And White Box, now gone because it was not practical to maintain...

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   Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell at gmail.com