Hi David, On 9/22/06, david t. asuncion, jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 9/22/06, Dean Michael Berris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Which is precisly my point: if these were the objectives, then how > does making FOSS mandatory achieve these goals again? Government can > choose to use only RHEL or SuSE on all the systems -- and they're > again locked into a single vendor. Using FOSS only in government will > not directly translate to fostering the local IT industry. > > Sana tama ang aking pagkaintindi...
Pardon me if I answer you in English.
Di ba kung pumili ka ng RHEL or SuSE, bagamat may bayad ang mga naturang serbisyo hindi ba't ligtas ka pa rin sa vendor lock-in dahil kung ayaw mo nang mag-avail ng subscription sa Red Hat o Novell dahil sa kaya mo nang wala ang kanilang technical support, puede ka namang makagamit ng CentOS o katumbas (o kaya'y derivative) na Linux Distro o kaya ipagpatuloy ang paggamit ng RHEL kahit walang subscription na kung saan hindi mo na kailangang gumastos pa ng malaki sa switching cost?
Here's the thing: if you're using RHEL on your machines and you avail of the support licenses AFAIK you can't make any un-supported modifications to the RH packages in your system (stuff like installing or using third-party patches or software that doesn't come with the RHEL distribution, etc.). Of course you can switch mid-stream and not avail of the support licenses -- or use as you have mentioned something like CentOS. Using Red Hat only in all systems is like a self-induced lock-in (if there's such a thing), where you'll be dependent on one vendor's services and expertise especially when it comes to software updates and support services. The possibility of this happening is not remote, and is not addressed by the FOSS bill. But then you're right: you can choose to go renegade on your RHEL installation and keep your fingers crossed that you'll not need the updates they provide. :-D
Ang alam ko rin kapag open source ang ginamit na technology (tama ba ung term?) gaya ng Apache, MySQL, PHP, etc.. mas madali at mas mura na magswitch from one distro to another so sa ganong lagay, walang vendor lockin dahil may choice kang lumipat ng vendor (or distro) na hindi mo kailangang magbuhos ng malaking halaga.
If you mean changing from one distribution to another, then there's no problem with that. However, you have other problems that accompany that switching whenever you have an "enterprise linux" installation like RHEL and SuSE. For instance, RedHat doesn't readily support the Intel C++ compilers, and issues that you encounter with that compiler even on the RH platforms will not be covered by the support agreement -- and may even warrant your system unsupported. I might be wrong, so please someone correct me if I am.
I can easily be corrected when I'm wrong. :)
Me too. ;-) On this issue, I might be stretching it and treading on thin ice. But I like doing that just for fun. :-D -- Dean Michael C. Berris C++ Software Architect Orange and Bronze Software Labs, Ltd. Co. web: http://software.orangeandbronze.com/ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mobile: +63 928 7291459 phone: +63 2 8943415 other: +1 408 4049532 blogs: http://mikhailberis.blogspot.com http://3w-agility.blogspot.com http://cplusplus-soup.blogspot.com _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
