On Thursday, 15 בNovember 2007, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: > That was the whole idea of Fedora. RedHat found that...
A long and semi-correct blurb about Fedora and RHEL. > Recently Red Hat has "entered" the desktop market, trying to spruce > up Fedora and make it what people would want to buy. They hope people > will buy it. Geof, why mix facts with fiction? Fedora is a community project and is not directly controlled by Red Hat. Moreover, since F7 (the previous release) it is built completely in the open, the build tools are all packaged nicely and you can easily create your own Fedora derivative distro (spin). This has been accelerated in F8 as there already several spins done by the community. Red Hat has been selling for several years a "Workstation" version of their RHEL. How do you think they are in any position to "sell" any Fedora version better than you, for example? > Ububtu is totally a community supported effort. Yes, just like Fedora. However, both are sponsored by companies (Red Hat for Fedora, Cannonical for Ubuntu). The only major distro which is and always was community supported is Debian [note: I'm mostly a Fedora user nowdays]. > This almost sunk RedHat because they had planned on selling boxes > of product for $99, while other people were selling the same > product (but not the book or support) for as little as $2. Yes, Red Hat was sinking no doubt... You mix the software (which is free) with the branded product (which is not). Red Hat makes (very good) money from their brand name. It has nothing to do with the source in their product which is free and always was. -- Oron Peled Voice/Fax: +972-4-8228492 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.actcom.co.il/~oron ICQ UIN: 16527398 Mary had a little lambda, Its syntax white as snow, And every program Mary wrote, She wrote in Lisp, you know. -- Karl Pflästerer -- Oron Peled Voice/Fax: +972-4-8228492 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.actcom.co.il/~oron ICQ UIN: 16527398 "Some people have a life, others have Windows to tell them where they want to go today" - Ronald C.F. Antony ================================================================To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
