Next LUG meet: 9 Nov 2003 around 4 pm - VJTI -------------------------------------------- On Wednesday 05 November 2003 05:03, Tahir Hashmi wrote: > Next LUG meet: 9 Nov 2003 around 4 pm - VJTI > -------------------------------------------- > > J. T. D'souza wrote: > > Harvesting open source. Everbody does the hard work and RH then > > repackages the good stuff and sells to the enterprise. > > Aha! That's their shiny new strategy? I'm impressed. Oh wait, what > were they doing so far then?
pretending that they were doing something higher. > > > OFFCOURSE they are providing you some sort of meeting ground and > > maybe some crummy servers (leftovers from the enterprise dept.?) > > which they are likely to shut when it starts hitting their bottom > > line. > > > :O Sounds like insider info. Is it true? Pure conjecture > : > > Debian also provides you everything that RHE does and doesnt > > charge you a cent. Further policy is not bent to pay somebody fat > > salaries nor tailored to fit bottom lines. So why bother with RH? > > Because it "works out of the box." I prefer deviating from a > default configuration that just works and customizing to my heart's > content rather than going the other way round. Yeah, tell me I'm > not adventurous enough. Debian works out of the box too. So does Knoppix, Slackware and a host of other distros. > > RedHat has contributed some good things and sometimes they were > flamed too but I like them for precisely that - anaconda, gcc 2.96, > bluecurve, metacity and so on. They get new stuff out before many > others. > > Fedora is "sponsored by RedHat" and is a "proving ground for new > technology." What part of that sounds problematic? > What do they suppose that the rest of the libre software world is doing?. My point is that a commercial distro wont be around to support when you need them. So SMEs and individuals dont touch a commercial distro with a barge pole. Instead use Debian and contribute your money to Debian or FSF India. -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
