Александр Кириллов wrote: >>>> CentOS has no clients to whom a contractual duty of support is >>>> owed. If SLAs, sales engineers, 800 numbers, and such are >>>> wanted or needed, PLEASE buy a contract from someone >>>> >>>> TANSTAAFL >>>> >>> And yes I started looking elsewhere and with reasonably priced offer >>> from >>> Oracle >>> this project is probably dead in the water. >>> >> Hi AK, >> >> Why would you swing so radically in the other direction from free to >> fee? >> >> Have you looked at SL? They don't have 5.6 but seem to be on a stable >> 6.0 rel. >> > > Hi, > > I'm not actually looking for free. > I'd gladly support the efforts of our "prominent North American Enterprise > Linux vendor" > with what little I have if their offers wouldn't be so ridiculously > expensive. > 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. > I didn't get into details yet but this sounds like a viable alternative. > > <rant> Scary how our society's ethics and decisions are driven by money. Pay less money - must be better - right even. So easy to forget the reason this debate turns up every 10 days or so - Oracle and others have been free-loading on RH and in order to survive RH had to take some action - action that in large part contributes to the delay so many complain about. Why is it that we don't see the issue that really has driven all this - A large unethical corporation has taken a free ride on the open-source community and stuffed it up for all of us. The cost of doing all the things that RH does, and contributing so much to the open-source community is paid for by those that need on-call support and responsiveness. Now along comes an unethical corporation that sees an opportunity to make some more money - doing what is right doesn't come into the equation As I said at the beginning of my rant - if it makes money it must be right - if it looses money or makes less money it must be wrong. Please don't put the blame in the wrong place - punish the real villain - buy something other than oracle! </rant> > AK > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: rkampen.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 337 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20110320/06d022f0/attachment-0011.vcf> -------------- next part -------------- _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos