Grant Williamson wrote:
Brian,
there are always alternative ways to deliver software, its not a
question agreeing or disagreeing with
opensource. Why should I need to go to Intel, the reason I need to
choose an enterprise distro is for support.
If anyone should be working with the hardware vendors its RedHat not me.
It boils down to whether redhat is able
to meet the demands of the enterprise desktop user. The unfortunate
answer is no.
Years ago, Red Hat used to ship CDE (in RHL {3,4}.x I think. Came the
day there was a security problem in CDE that RH could not fix, and the
vendor wouldn't.
RH offered a credit against future purchases to those (paying customers)
who were affected, and since then has worked to remove binary-only
software such as Netscape from its distros.
I don't think RH is going to change direction on this.
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Cheers
John
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