Anyone interested in this mess should have a look at this article: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/33823.html
They're trying to increase revenues by preventing use of their "desktop" offering in the server room. They've chosen a method that cuts off the nose to spite the face, but I still think they'll continue to be quite successful in the Fortune 500 space for inertial reasons. Only thing is, when the Fortune 500 begins to seriously evaluate Linux desktops, they won't be running RH. The question is, once they bring in Mandrake or SuSE or Fedora for the desktops, what's going to stop them from bringing it into the server room too? RH is trying to build two truly separate distributions, a server and a desktop, with different source trees, different package revisions, different config tools... This is such an architecturally flawed move that it clearly came from marketing, especially because doing it in an open source environment is practically impossible. Every feature they remove can easily be replaced, every attempt to cripple Fedora for server use can be circumvented, and if it isn't easy to do then Fedora will simply get dropped like a hot rock. If the community drops it, RH's only chance to encourage it for desktop use is to play licensing and discount games, where enforceability gets difficult and customer/vendor relations get adversarial. Generally a bone-headed move all around -- worst case scenario is a hated albatross cousin to RH server, best case scenario is that they've spawned their own new competitor. On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 23:20, James Sparenberg wrote: > Am I alone in noticing the insanity. As if SCO wasn't bad enough. > Lycoris deciding that it can rewrite the GPL. Now the CEO of RedHat > (or as I've heard of late DeadRat) is advocating that Home users stick > with Windows as Linux isn't ready for the desktop. Maybe I should send > the SOB a copy of 9.2 when it's ready to show him what RH could have > been if they didn't suffer from NIH (Not Invented Here) syndrome. > > http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39117575,00.htm > > James > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture...
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