business must be profitable. Open source companies are inherently
devoted to distributing free products and charging for support. By
dropping support for the consumer version of Red Hat, they are just
doing something that will help their stock price.
The problem with an open source company: Wall Street is not open source.
There is no room for making the world better, only for making a profit.
M
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Campbell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 12:07 PM
To: CF-Community
Subject: Re: Red Hat no longer free
I believe what's happening (correct me if I'm totally mistaken here) is
that RedHat is not going to be offering an off-the-shelf consumer
version anymore, only business-class Linux. You can still go to their
site and download the Fedora ISO's anytime you want, however. I think
they just determined the public wing was a drag on the company as a
whole, and public support was too costly.
- Jim
Ben Densmore wrote:
>I haven't heard about that. I wonder if they will drop in popularity
>among Linux users if this is the case. I thought the whole point behind
>open source was to offer this stuff for free?
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>Ben
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>-----Original Message-----
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>Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 11:54 AM
>To: CF-Community
>Subject: Red Hat no longer free
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>Has anyone heard about this? I'm seeing reports that Red Hat Linux will
>no longer be free after April 2004.
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