On 19-07-12 00:34, Fernando Cassia wrote:
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 7:09 PM, John R. Dennison jrd@gerdesas.com wrote:
Perhaps if they were actually putting out their _own_ distribution instead of leeching off Redhat's work and then _making money off of it_ it perchance might be a different story.
It's called "free market competition".
No it's not. It's called leeching.
It brings down costs for the consumer.
Thanks for a good laugh. The only thing that will happen when companies switch from RHEL to Oracle's EOL is that they will get up-sold like there's no tomorrow and Larry & minions will take them for every penny & first born they got.
Sun took Novell's SuSE Enterprise Desktop for its short-lived Java Desktop System (JDS) Linux.
Iirc there was a commercial arrangement. You know the free market kind where money is paid for goods and services as in the opposite from leeching.
As long as they comply with the GPL rules, it's all fair game.
Larry is that you?
Regards, Patrick