On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 17:52 -0600, me at prestoncrawford.com wrote: > Yes, Red Hat creates RHEL. But by that logic shouldn't the credit be > given to each contributor to each individual project that goes into a > distro? I said the same thing. We all stand on the shoulders of others. At least in the GPL world. > Red Hat doesn't create mySQL, do they? Coincidentally, despite MySQL being GPL, MySQL AB actually gets demonized pretty good too. Ironic because MySQL used to not be GPL, or at least the current releases weren't. Now Red Hat _does_ support PostgreSQL, especially after the commercial endeavor behind PostgreSQL died off (within 18 months of inception). And PostgreSQL is a nice complement to MySQL for those that want more of an ACID-level db. > Or Apache? Actually, Apache is a massive project umbrella. Apache could be considered somewhat of an entity "like Red Hat," projects of projects under one umbrella. > How about Firefox? Now hold on there. Now we're getting a little off-track. Firefox is _not_ GPL or "GPL compatible" exactly. ;-> Be careful what doors you open there! ;-ppp > Is that Red Hat's baby? No. But Red Hat does maintain a lot of the "core goods." As did Cygnus before Red Hat bought them out (and bloated 3x in size). Without Cygnus, I don't think the GNU world would be where it is at today. > Point is, if you keep on saying "give credit where credit is due" you > have to pass it down the line to the individual developers, testers, > bug-fixers, etc. for the thousands of projects that go into RHEL. Agreed. Although don't belittle what Red Hat does. It might not be "sexy" -- but when has Red Hat been about maintaining the "sexy" projects? ;-ppp > Not to mention all the brave Fedora users. Just like all the brave Red Hat Linux users before them too. ;-ppp > So in the end, all things being equal and considering the above, > my vote goes for CentOS. I think we can all agree we all are working together in the GPL community. But be _careful_ of giving praise or scorn -- especially using non-GPL or non-GPL compatible projects as examples. Not everything GPL is always sexy, but it's very important. -- Bryan J. Smith b.j.smith at ieee.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- It is mathematically impossible for someone who makes more than you to be anything but richer than you. Any tax rate that penalizes them will also penalize you similarly (to those below you, and then below them). Linear algebra, let alone differential calculus or even ele- mentary concepts of limits, is mutually exclusive with US journalism. So forget even attempting to explain how tax cuts work. ;->