[NTLUG:Discuss] Redhat Offerings -- the Red Hat bashing tourisback!

[Kevin Hulse]

--- comcast <collindavis at comcast.net> wrote:
> >>Redhat is quite capable of doing that without
> treating their test
> distribution like some sort of 
> >>leper. All they need to do is maintain the same
> level of "control" that
> they had in the 3.0.3 
> >>days.
> 
> >>[deletia]
> 
> Leper? From http://fedora.redhat.com:
> 
> The Fedora Project is a Red-Hat-sponsored and
> community-supported open
> source project. It is also a proving ground for new
> technology that may
> eventually make its way into Red Hat products. It is
> not a supported product
> of Red Hat, Inc. 
[deletia]
> 
> 
> -- Nothing quite says "leper" like sponsoring a
> totally free distro and
> having an engineering team work on it.

"help, but only from a distance"

That's very much like a leper colony actually.

> 
> -Just a thought

Take away the trusted name and you might as well
install Debian. This is the point. This is why this
split is problematic for the PHB crowd even if it
won't bother those for whom Redhat was their second
distro back at version 3.0.3.