Daouda Lo wrote: > On 1/5/07, Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org> wrote: > >Oracle REALLY, REALLY, REALLY needs to rethink this policy ... giving > >away free ISOs that contain packages with known security vulnerabilities > >and not providing free security updates is wrong headed and ABSOLUTELY > >IRRESPONSIBLE. > > > >I can't understand how they can sleep at night. Looking at their security track regarding their flagship product - I think they're used to it or their drugs are strong enough :) > It's the same policy as RedHat and its RHN thingie. Both ORacle and > Redhat provide fee-based updates. RedHat at least lets you test the product for 30 days - including free (as in beer) updates. > Fedora and Centos are the ways to go if you want to be totally free. As in beer, yes. As in speech, you can also use RHEL. And: CentOS is always happy about donations >:) Ralph -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/attachments/20070105/1f54943f/attachment-0007.sig>