What spinoff do you mean? Did I miss something? http://finance.yahoo.com/q/co?s=RHT+Competitors
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_Linux I suppose you could argue that Oracle comes behind Microsoft and Novell on the list of Red Hat competitors (I wonder how Red Hat looks at it?), but I do not think that changes my reasoning nor my conclusions. If you think the end result will be to make it _easier_ to obtain a free clone of RHEL, then once again, I think you are out of your mind. Yes, I am accusing Red Hat (http://community.redhat.com/centos-faq/#_motivations) of lying... Or, more precisely, of being highly selective with the truth. Also again, I could be wrong. Time will tell. - Pat On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 10:12 AM, Andrew Z <[email protected]> wrote: > Patrick, > Why do you think oracle's spinoff is their major competition? > > On Jan 14, 2014 12:47 PM, "Patrick J. LoPresti" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> RedHat is a company. Companies exist for the sole purpose of making >> money. Every action by any company -- literally every single action, >> ever -- is motivated by that goal. >> >> The question you should be asking is: How does Red Hat believe this >> move is going to make them money? >> >> Those were statements of fact. What follows is merely my opinion. >> >> Right now, anybody can easily get for free the same thing Red Hat >> sells, and their #1 competitor is taking their products, augmenting >> them, and reselling them. If you think Red Hat perceives this as being >> in their financial interest, I think you are out of your mind. >> >> SRPMs will go away and be replaced by an ever-moving git tree. Red Hat >> will make it as hard as legally possible to rebuild their commercial >> releases. The primary target of this move is Oracle, but Scientific >> Linux will be collateral damage. >> >> I consider all of this pretty obvious, but perhaps I am wrong. I hope I >> am. >> >> - Pat
