On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 20:28, Terry Hancock wrote: > On Tuesday 23 September 2003 06:03 pm, Paul E Condon wrote: > > RedHat's business model is moving toward support services for enterprises > > and away from sale of boxed sets of CDs. I don't think it makes much > > sense for them to continue work on the RedHat Linux distribution, but I > > can see why they might want to pretend to do so. Their corporate customers > > probably wouldn't notice if RedHat started loading Debian onto the corporate > > computers, so long as Red Hat, the company, continued to provide support. > > > > I think they would save themselves a lot of head aches if they did move to > > Debian. This collective support of the RedHat distribution, without selling > > CDs looks to me like Debian done badly. It will wither away, and the people > > will drift into the Debian community. > > It occurs to me that that might very well be a near-ideal and possibly > planned outcome. If I were running Red Hat, I would probably think > so. No need to scent conspiracy theories -- it's not a bad approach > to transition: gives plenty of time for the two to grow towards a standard > (e.g. the LSB stuff), and then make the transition smooth for the end user.
That would be a possible theory if Debian & RH both use the same package manager. Now, if RH wants to admit to the error in it's ways and move to dpkg/apt/deb, it could be an enterprise version of Libranet, and, since it charges for updates to multiple systems (the RH Network), it would be a lot like Lindows! -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA "I have created a government of whirled peas..." Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, 12-May-2002, CNN, Larry King Live -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
