> Well.. we can only assume that RH wanted to avoid the > expense of RHL in light of the much better supported > and maintained external efforts (like Fedora).
You can make money on a straight forard Linux distribution, and indeed several vendors do that. Fedora is about fixing a much more fundmanetal problem - the things that developers want and the things large corporate customers want don't just differ but conflict. So now there are two seperate things. One of them is boring, behind the leading edge and slowly updating (and all the other things that make developers unhappy and CIO's delighted), the other is much more like the old old Red Hat - 3 or so releases a year, people stamping CD's of it cheap and so on. Its leading edge, fast changing, has cool new technologies on it that developers and hackers like but your average CIO really doesn't want. Alan
