On 12/10/2012 05:39 PM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
Which is why I think it would be in every ones best interest if all
the RHEL clones ( even oracle ) would unite join our community
maintain and support Fedora LTS release instead risk being bitten by
any business decision Red Hat either willingly or be forced to make.
Community rebuilds of EL or Oracle don't have any interest in Fedora as
such. They are interested in a product that provides binary
compatibility with EL and Fedora LTS won't do that and if your goal is
to protect yourself from Red Hat decisions entirely, using the Fedora
brand isn't the ideal choice. More to the point, EL rebuilds are
directly affected by whatever changes Red Hat does in EL and as long as
they want to retain compatibility, they cannot isolate themselves from
it and if they do, lose compatibility, the lose the raison d'etre. You
can build a Fedora LTS which merely extends Fedora release by a few
months or a couple of years with no goal of retaining EL compatibility
and in that case, the community around EL rebuilds won't participate in
it.
Rahul