On Tuesday 23 September 2003 06:03 pm, Paul E Condon wrote: > RedHat's business model is moving toward support services for enterprises > and away from sale of boxed sets of CDs. I don't think it makes much > sense for them to continue work on the RedHat Linux distribution, but I > can see why they might want to pretend to do so. Their corporate customers > probably wouldn't notice if RedHat started loading Debian onto the corporate > computers, so long as Red Hat, the company, continued to provide support. > > I think they would save themselves a lot of head aches if they did move to > Debian. This collective support of the RedHat distribution, without selling > CDs looks to me like Debian done badly. It will wither away, and the people > will drift into the Debian community.
It occurs to me that that might very well be a near-ideal and possibly planned outcome. If I were running Red Hat, I would probably think so. No need to scent conspiracy theories -- it's not a bad approach to transition: gives plenty of time for the two to grow towards a standard (e.g. the LSB stuff), and then make the transition smooth for the end user. Cheers, Terry -- Terry Hancock ( hancock at anansispaceworks.com ) Anansi Spaceworks http://www.anansispaceworks.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]