On 5/30/05, Simon Perreault nomis80@lqt.ca wrote:
How can you ask that when you're not paying anything for it? This assurance has some value, and that's what Red Hat is selling.
Why can't I? Open Source is all about choices. I was using RedHat...would have gone to Fedora but they were too fast ..as far as release issues were concerned...So, I had a choice to make...go debian, slackware.
And then there was the option of having RedHat clones...of having RedHat minus support cost. I made my choice. All I had to do was to find a vibrant RHES clone community and join.
The direction of the base distro was a major issue. I did not want any major problems with production servers...so the Centos policy of RHES only base distro is good as far as I am concerned. If I opt for extras...I know I have got to do extra testing...or bear the blame! My personal box is always Fedora, updated weekly and I enjoy tweaking things when they breakdown but that can't do for production servers.
As another poster suggested, RedHat can be sued...I have neither intentions, nor time nor money to persue that with RedHat or anyone else.
With best regards. Sanjay.