Stuart Brorson wrote:
The reason Apple could do this is that they acutally have revenue, and can therefore support great developers to work on their products full-time. *That's* what Linux lacks right now -- a self-sustaining business model.
Finally, I'll point out that Red Hat finally became profitable last year, when the instituted the new pricing policy. Prior to that, they basically ran in the red for 8 or 9 years, living on VC cash and the blind hope of folks who bought the stock at the IPO. Sure, we all like to get things for free, but if Linux is going to develop at the same pace as the rest of the computer industry, it needs to find a way to support itself.
I agree 100%, and I think RHEL will eventually provide the answer. The problem is, they won't get there just by selling support contracts.
BTW, if anyone has a link to the stripped-out version, I'd appreciate it. I spent some time looking a couple of months ago and found nothing.
Why not use Fedora? Isn't it basically RedHat without support & some
server packages?
I do (RH7.2 and FC2). The problem is, I don't know exactly how it differs from RHEL, and the EDA vendors only 'support' RHEL. I think (don't know yet) that FC is much more unpolished. As an aside, it was a pig to install on my laptop; it doesn't understand laptops.
Evan
