On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 10:12, Jos Vos wrote:
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 12:53:29PM -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> This table attempts to summarize the difference between our operating
> system products and the Fedora Project:
>
http://fedora.redhat.com/about/rhel.html
>
> Red Hat will be doing a lot of development and other work on the Fedora
> Project, but it's not a product that you can buy from us. We're working
> on the Fedora Project in the same way that we work on other projects
> such as Mozilla or the Linux kernel.
Well, I can't read this different from "Red Hat stops delivering a
freely available Linux distribution", which I consider bad news :-(.
That's looking at the empty half of the bottle. :-)
If you look at the other half, it reads like this:
The Fedora Project is sort of a "truly open" Linux distribution, a la
Debian, with little control from commercial entities. This should put a
stop to the "commercially bastardized Linux" criticisms (at least in
theory).
RHEL is the commercial fork of it.
I'll say both things are needed. Good move, guys.
--
Florin Andrei
http://florin.myip.org/