On 07/03/30 00:10 +0530, Cheedhu said ... > From: Y Giridhar Appaji Nag <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > You can download the source SRPMS for all the RHEL packages but the > > but I couldn't find out the link to download the sources either!
http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/4/en/os/i386/SRPMS/ > > Let RedHat make some money :). > > it should not kill the spirit while doing it The spirit is in the source dude, not in the binaries, really :) > In this matter, Ubuntu is much better. And Ubuntu doesn't submit patches they make to Debian packages usable by Debian maintainers directly. Some argue that it isn't really in spirit. > The download of binaries and sources are free, but the support from > Canonical is charged Depends on how you define support. For Canonical, support means fixing customer reported bugs. For RedHat, support means building binary packages from the sources for the customer and also fixing customer reported bugs. Both charge for "support" :) Centos support model is like that of Canonical (though not in the strict sense, but you know what I mean). > That kind of model works better It works better for quite a few of us because we don't want to do the hardwork of building things on our own. It isn't necessarily better for the companies that are trying to make money with free software keeping with the spirit of free software. Giridhar -- Y Giridhar Appaji Nag | http://www.appaji.net/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
