On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 08:33:16PM +0200, Jos Vos wrote:
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commercial distributions (fill in the names yourself). And we had
a (truly?) open commercial distribution: Red Hat Linux. IMHO this
is what we seem to loose now: a fully open distribution, but still
controlled by a single entity (company). Red Hat Linux played this
role, between the community distributions and the not-completely-open
commercial distributions. So I still think we *do* loose something.
As far as I can tell, Mandrake and Conectiva both fit into the same sort
of role as the old Red Hat Linux did. I would characterize both of those
as fully open distributions that are controlled by companies.
(I'm typing this from a Mandrake box, although my laptop runs Red Hat as
do most of the computers I manage at work.)
-Barry K. Nathan <barryn(a)pobox.com>