"Jesus Ortega (a.k.a. Nitebirdz)" wrote:
>
> On Sat, 19 Jan 2002, Nick Wilson wrote:
>
> >
> > I think I'll be following you,
> > I can hear Debian calling my name.
> >
> > - --
> >
> > Nick Wilson
> >
>
> Come on! Shouldn't we give them the benefit of the doubt? If a merger or
> buyout does happen, you can bet I'll be trying to get more familiar with
> Debian, just in case. At least they cannot be bought. Yet, there is no doubt
> in my mind that I'd rather give Red Hat the benefit of the doubt. They have
> turned out an excellent product that, at least in my view, far surpasses the
> overall quality of the other distributions in the market. This is precisely
> what drove me to use Red Hat back with the 4.2 release several years ago, and
> I don't think it has changed ever since.
>
> Second, Red Hat has proven their commitment to open source so far where it
> matters: with their products, and not only with words. They have been
> releasing everything (as far as I know) with a GPL license, which among other
> things has been used by certain people to start their own distributions.
> Not since the old days of the SLS distro has another single distribution
> spawned so many other players in the Linux market (well, perhaps Debian is
> on a par with Red Hat here).
This is the problem. Red Hat is committed to open source. AOL-Time
Warner is committed to proprietary development. Think AIM and AOL
Keyword and all of the problems that occur on mailing lists (listserv
and majordomo both) every time a new version of AOL comes out.
--
Janyne Kizer
CNE-3, CNE-4, CNE-5
Systems Programmer Administrator I
NC State University, College of Agriculture & Life Sciences
Extension and Administrative Technology Services
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