Forwarded message FYI. Probably people from RH or Fedora can comment on this mail.
Regards -Sudhanwa ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Edgar D' Souza <edgar.b.dsouza at gmail.com> Date: Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 5:32 PM Subject: [ILUG-GOA] RedHat/Fedora Crisis - is Red Hat playing Microsoft-like games? To: ilug-goa at yahoogroups.com Bruce Byfield has some rather pungent observations about Red Hat's behavior during the recent server compromise problems... http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3770216/The+Fedora-Red+Hat+Crisis.htm ==quotes== the Fedora-Red Hat announcements not only concealed information, but gave users no way to investigate their own system for problems, nor any means of protection beyond the negative one of not installing or updating. Faced with a security problem, Red Hat reacted far less like Debian and much more like Microsoft, which is notorious for denying security problems until a patch is ready. No doubt it tried to protect its corporate interests, but it did next to nothing for users. When trouble came, FOSS interests and standards were apparently jettisoned in favor of immediate business concerns. The damage to Fedora's credibility is potentially immense. In a matter of days, Red Hat has quashed Fedora's claim to independence. It has also threatened the credibility of the Red Hat employees who manage Fedora -- people whose devotion to FOSS has always been clear in their actions and dedication. ... If Red Hat, one of the epitomes of a successful FOSS-based business, can ignore FOSS when to do so is corporately convenient, then what chance do we have that other companies -- especially publicly-traded ones -- will act any better? =end quotes= __._,_.___ Messages in this topic (1) Reply (via web post) | Start a new topic Messages | Members | Calendar ************************************************************************* ILUG-Goa's other mailing lists: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ilug-goa-announce LOW-VOLUME, ANNOUNCE LIST http://groups.yahoo.com/group/teach-yourself-linux FOR NEWBIES http://groups.yahoo.com/group/linuxgoahelp TECH HELP LIST http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goa-floss-developer/ DEVELOPERS' LIST http://feeds.goa-india.org (RSS-based news from across India) ================================================================== -- ______________________________________________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: ([email protected]) List Information: http://plug.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.
