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Skriven 2006-12-28 23:42:36 av Tim Boyer (1:379/45)
   Kommentar till text 1059 av Geo. (1:379/45)
Ärende: Re: Comparing distro update policies
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From: Tim Boyer <tim@denmantire.com>

On Thu, 28 Dec 2006 23:15:17 -0500, "Geo." <georger@nls.net> wrote:

>"Tim Boyer" <tim@denmantire.com> wrote in message
>news:jhd8p2pvrvskj2manjb937ll5u5ltlnqbh@4ax.com...
>
>> Yeah, but Fedora is _supposed_ to be bleeding edge.  It's the hobbyists'
>> OS;
>> the one you play around with.  It's not supplied by any corporation.
>
>Ok, free software (ie no copyright) is sort of a special case.
>
>> It's what feeds Red Hat Enterprise.  RHE _is_ supported by Red Hat, and
>> they
>> promise version support for seven years.  IMHO, seven years for OS support
>> isn't bad.
>
>They want the copyright to last for 100 years, then they can damn well
>provide support and security patches for 10 years, hell they should have to
>provide it for the full 100.
>
>Geo.

What copyright?  You think this is Windows or something?  It's open source. Red
Hat has to offer all of the changes they've made for free.  Don't want to pay
them for support?  Get CentOS instead:

"CentOS is an Enterprise-class Linux Distribution derived from sources freely
provided to the public by a prominent North American Enterprise Linux vendor.
CentOS conforms fully with the upstream vendors redistribution policy and aims
to be 100% binary compatible. (CentOS mainly changes packages to remove
upstream vendor branding and artwork.) "

It's Red Hat Enterprise Linux, with the logo changed.  The only thing Red Hat
has copyrighted is the name and the logo.

George, it's _all_ free software!  You don't want to pay for support?  Then
don't pay for support.  I do - completely voluntarily - because I like Red Hat
support, and I want to keep them in business.

That's what the whole Oracle brouhaha is all about.  Ellison can grab the same
software that Red Hat has, and offer support for a lower price.  Red Hat,
thanks to the GPL, has no choice - it _has_ to publish source.

--
tim boyer
tim@denmantire.com

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