On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 14:53:09 -0400, Joe Polk wrote:
I have mixed emotions about this concept. Frankly, RH has made small companies and individuals feel they really aren't worth their trouble. Their licensing scheme is, in my opinion, not very "community" oriented. They've decided to pattern it more after Microsoft. They don't want money from end users. They cancelled their end user desktop to focus on corporate users. The primary reason I don't ru RH officially is due to this attitude. I appreciate the Centos dev team for putting Centos together and would much rather donate to them.
Completely false!
RedHat supports and pays for many engineers developing and maintaining the Fedora project. It's free, it's very well supported and nobody has to pay any fee even for the use of the RedHat servers and bandwidth as they download the ISOs and the updates.
Home users that want multimedia and wireless with frequent upgrades should use Fedora.
Corporate users that want a long and stable environment should use RHEL. If they do not want to pay for the support or the licenses, RedHat has released the full source code for their enterprise product. This is were CaOS/Tao/Fermi/WBEL... come in.
SuSE/Novell does not release their enterprise servers under the GPL licence, RedHat does. There are already betas available for RHEL 4.
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