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On Mon, 2003-11-24 at 16:21, Thomas Corriher wrote: > I don't know about the "Enterprise" lines history specifically, but > since RH is moving only to that, these are word games. Sure the > source in available in RPM format -- but that 's the whole point > isn't it? The source is available in the RED HAT Package Format > which requires one to purchase RH or go through a great deal of > difficulty to extract them. No it doesn't. It's on ftp. Free. RPM is also not only free, but used by other distros. > Yes... *technically* you folks are > following the rules of the GPL, but you clearly do not intend to > abide by the spirit of the GPL or the GNU Project anymore. No we don't intend to simply abide by the GPL, we exceed it's requirements. We are not required to make the source code available to anyone in any format, rpm or otherwise that is not a customer. Period. Yet we do. > Now you folks are spitting on the very > folks who promoted you to being the de-facto standard. It is a > pity. There are obviously fools at the helm. You will be mourned. It's our fault we haven't more strongly messaged Fedora. But it's exactly what you are claiming we have left behind. At the bit level Fedora is no different than what would have been called RHL 10. In fact all the way up to the merger with the Fedora Linux folks, the beta was numbered 9.x.x Fedora has ISOs, it has updates, it has more community contribution than any prior release. It also has tertiary projects like Fedora Legacy to carry forth security errata for EOLd products like Red Hat Linux. The only gap we have left, and we will address it, is in the SOHO/SMB realm. Our retail line, and ftp version and base of our enterprise contracts were all called by the same name, and differentiated only by service entitlement. What that meant to us was, we has no idea why folks were buying in retail. Now we do. Half of the complaints we have heard were from smaller orgs using it for production servers, and the other half were complaining that we killed a home desktop offering that we never had. Our focus over the next couple of years will be continuing to execute on our enterprise strategy, flesh out an SMB/SOHO offering, and really push for a non-business desktop offering. --jeremy _______________________________________________ Redhat-migration-list mailing list Redhat-migration-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-migration-list
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