On 3/20/11 1:57 PM, Eero Volotinen wrote:
> .
>> I hope the situation may change now with Oracle in direct competition with
>> RH
>> for RH and RH-based distros user base. BTW Oracle offers installable
>> binaries for free.
>
> Yes, but patches (support) cost money, as you might know. Anyway, it
> is better to pay for real
> RH instead of oracle linux..
Or, maybe there was back in the days when they released source that matched
their binaries... Personally, I think everyone would be better off today if
they had turned their back on anything RH-related the day they stopped
permitting redistribution of their binaries among the community that created
them and made them usable in the first place. I was too lazy to change and
Centos made it look reasonable to leave things approximately the same. But, now
that RH is putting the screws on anyone who doesn't pay up it is probably time
for anyone who cares about free software to rethink things.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com