Delay? Looks bad for Fedora

Scott Ware scott at eardown.com
Tue Nov 4 13:30:03 UTC 2003


> On Tuesday 04 November 2003 01:08, Gordon Messmer wrote:
>
>> > The move to fedora was a mistake for RedHat.  I understand why they
>> did
>> > it, but they went too far and discarded loyal users ( some paying some
>> > not.
>>
>> There seem to be a lot of people voicing the opinion that this is a move
>> to abandon the Free Software community.
>
> That didn't seem to be what the poster was saying.
> He was expressing the view -- which I share --
> was that the development may be bad _for RedHat_.
>
> To me, the RH/Fedora thing is just very confusing,
> and I don't want to spend a lot of time thinking (or reading) about it.
>
> I'm actually running Fedora on one desktop, and RH-9.0 on another,
> and both are running perfectly.
> But I knew exactly where I was with RH-6-7-8-9,
> and I don't feel I know exactly where I am with Fedora.
>
> Like many others, I am occasionally asked about commercial installations,
> and I've always recommended RedHat.
> I probably still will do so, but not with the same enthusiasm.
>
> So I don't think RedHat is wicked --
> I just think they may have made a commercial mistake.
>
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I see your point. But to me...it just seems that (obviously) RedHat is
focusing more on the enterprise now, and with moving the free RedHat
distro to Fedora, I see Fedora as being and possibly having the same and
more functionality as RedHat 6-7-8-9 did...(without the commercial
support, though).





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