Marko Vojinovic wrote:
On Friday 03 June 2011 16:21:35 Les Mikesell wrote:
On 6/3/2011 8:57 AM, Lamar Owen wrote:
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So what? Red Hat created a community by beeing free in both senses, and
then decided to go commercial at some point. And that hurt the feelings of some minor number of hard-nosed community members. Is that what you are talking about?
I was around at the time of Red Hat going commercial. I heard about that,
<snip> I'm having some problems with the way the conversation is going. RedHat *was* a company; to me, the RHEL was aimed as a wedge, to get into corporate America. For that matter, who started offering their distro of RHEL around then? Why, the same company that offered this new o/s on their brand new product, the IBM PC in 1980: IBM.
RedHat, at least, has not taken the path to the Dark Side, as the Other Company did....
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