Amen to that! I am using Redhat for my servers for a very long time, and I panic by their decision to stop support for the classic RH, I wonder what will happen to my servers and it'll be a painstaking effort to migrate my RH boxes to a new distro like Debian. But I think their decision is right, for if I own a company like RH with a lot people on their payroll, it's impossible to survive without a commercial version and SLA. I think merging with the Fedora Project and owning the trademark is a good decision, it is beneficial to both the community and RedHat itself. Meantime, we're planning to migrate to RH Enterprise, to make things easier and to pay homage to the free wonderful distro that helps us through the years.
On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 00:23, Paolo Vanni M. Ve�egas wrote: > On Monday 03 November 2003 10:40 am, Rick Moen wrote: > > Red Hat is a very benign and friendly company. Most firms are a great > > deal worse towards the community, and we of the Linux community have > > seldom had allies as dependable as Red Hat is. Understand that, > > sometimes, they behave like a business... because they have to. > > I agree. I must say, I really like Red Hat as a company. I believe the way > they're shaping GNU/Linux is essential for the community as well as for > enterprise opportunities for the system. Take Bluecurve, for example. They > endured a lot of criticism on that so-called "step back", but I think it was > actually a leap forward for providing a suitable GNU/Linux desktop > environment. (Though personally, I still use Blackbox. But for users fresh > from other OSs, it was quite something.) > > Unlike some other commercial companies, like that mongrel Lindows, for example > (*rant, rant*), Red Hat is actually Good and Right. > > On Monday 03 November 2003 09:33 pm, spikes wrote: > > That is why Debian (and to all those with social contract) is great! > > Red Hat is moving towards other pursuits. Like Rick said, they're a > commercial group, but even as one, they've been taking a deviant course, just > to prove that Free/open source software is marketable and applicable as > solutions in many environments. This is actually another Good Thing from Red > Hat. GNU/Linux needs corporate/enterprise (will I say commercial?) support, > and that's exactly what Red Hat is giving it. I admire Red Hat's show of > support for and confidence in Free/open source software. They've given the > Linux system the push in the right directions: it wouldn't be the same today > without them. > > Fedora is also still quite active. Having choices is good. :) > > (Disclaimer: We run RH 7.2 on the general server. I use Mandrake/Gentoo/Debian > for my personal boxen. Don't brand me as a Red Hat geek. ^_^)
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