On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 4:08 PM, Reindl Harald h.reindl@thelounge.net wrote:
How about the real history, where Red Hat took a bunch of software developed by others, published the barely-working stuff with horrible bugs (read the changelogs if you disagree....), then accepted contributed debugging, fixes and improvements from the users until it was good enough to charge for, then they cut off access even to the people who had helped make it usable. And CentOS helps fix that problem
so what
what about live and let live?
What about bait and switch?
remove anything delevoped by RH paied employes in the last 10 years from the ecosystem and you stay here naked and helpless and most other distributions too in case of modern and rock solid software
Remove the stuff contributed by others and what would still work at all?
GCC and the kernel are only two but importnat pieces where Redhat invested a lot of time and money over the years
so whats your problem?
I guess I'd rather have seen the contributed work go to a distribution that didn't develop a community with a free version and then after accepting their work, take the free version away. CentOS still gives the same effect, so why didn't they just continue to allow redistribution?
On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 04:40:14PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
What about bait and switch?
What about the fact that you've been beating this same horse for many years now and it's a little tired at this point?
I guess I'd rather have seen the contributed work go to a distribution that didn't develop a community with a free version and then after accepting their work, take the free version away. CentOS still gives the same effect, so why didn't they just continue to allow redistribution?
If you're so disgruntled with Red Hat, and from the many years of beaten horse posts it's clearly evident that you are, why do you continue to use their components? CentOS originates with Red Hat no matter how you care to look at it.
John
On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 4:45 PM, John R. Dennison jrd@gerdesas.com wrote:
What about bait and switch?
What about the fact that you've been beating this same horse for many years now and it's a little tired at this point?
They are the ones that changed their position. Mine hasn't and won't. And I can't see a reason why it should.
If you're so disgruntled with Red Hat, and from the many years of beaten horse posts it's clearly evident that you are, why do you continue to use their components? CentOS originates with Red Hat no matter how you care to look at it.
If you are so happy with Red Hat, why even consider CentOS?
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