On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 14:04 +0100, Dominik Składanowski wrote: > > > The arguments they gave to me were, what happen if redhat close the > > base packages, they don't have to release them, but just to the buyer, > > and we can't buy the distro, there are others distros like debian that > > is totally free, and without dependencies of proprietary industry. > > To be honest I was anxious about that too. > Take a look for a case of SuSE Linux Enterprise Server. Why Novell > don't make available SRPMs the way RedHad do? Novell has traditionally been a proprietary solutions provider. They prefer keeping things close to their chest, even if it's a running chainsaw. RH has a tradition of helping out where they can and letting people do what they like. -- Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazquez at ivazquez.net> http://centos.ivazquez.net/ gpg --keyserver hkp://subkeys.pgp.net --recv-key 38028b72 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060123/691cf346/attachment-0004.sig>