On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 13:05:05 -0500, Jason Dixon jason@dixongroup.net wrote:
I'm curious as to why you're not supporting a business running RHEL instead. Without RHEL, there would be no <insert_RHEL_clone_here> distribution. Granted, the CentOS is a wonderful project, and I continue using and supporting (see below) as long as it's useful to me, but if you're going to support something with _money_, why not put it where it will actually benefit the CentOS developers and community?
Buying webspace from a company using CentOS supports nobody but the company hosting your account. They paid no funds to further the development of CentOS; Red Hat and its customers do. By spending your money on a company that uses RHEL, you're helping to ensure that RHEL is successful. So long as RHEL is successful (barring any changes in policy from Red Hat), CentOS can continue to derive their releases from RHEL.
True that it does not put any funds into CentOS or Caosity.org. That's not my intent _here. My intent is to have a dedicated server preinstalled with CentOS on it. As I stated before, I am looking for an inexpensive solution. RHEL is great, but the licensing is expensive, and those costs get rolled into the monthly charges. I'm not going to be running a business on this server, so it's not like I'll have income there that would defray the cost of the server. It's just going to be a personal dev. box, with a few accounts for family and friends.
Also, I like CentOS a lot! The more hosting providers that offer CentOS, means more users and a stronger community. And that should lead to more widespread acceptance of the project.
-Ryan