On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 4:08 PM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net> wrote: > >> How about the real history, where Red Hat took a bunch of software >> developed by others, published the barely-working stuff with horrible >> bugs (read the changelogs if you disagree....), then accepted >> contributed debugging, fixes and improvements from the users until it >> was good enough to charge for, then they cut off access even to the >> people who had helped make it usable. And CentOS helps fix that >> problem > > so what > > what about live and let live? What about bait and switch? > remove anything delevoped by RH paied employes in the last 10 years > from the ecosystem and you stay here naked and helpless and most > other distributions too in case of modern and rock solid software Remove the stuff contributed by others and what would still work at all? > GCC and the kernel are only two but importnat pieces where > Redhat invested a lot of time and money over the years > > so whats your problem? I guess I'd rather have seen the contributed work go to a distribution that didn't develop a community with a free version and then after accepting their work, take the free version away. CentOS still gives the same effect, so why didn't they just continue to allow redistribution? -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com