On 3/20/2011 3:30 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > 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. > exactly. Nothing against Centos but I've deployed my last RH based box. It'll be either Debian or Ubuntu from now on.