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

[Kevin Hulse]

--- comcast <collindavis at comcast.net> wrote:
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but when I used RH 7.2/7.2,
> and heck, RH 9... There
> was no "free tech support 800 number to call".  How
> is what they're doing
> with Fedora any different? 

They're going out of their way to avoid being
directly associated with it in the minds of 
people who would care about branding.

Whether a support number is or was ever involved
is just a Red Herring.

> 
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> Subject: RE: [NTLUG:Discuss] Redhat Offerings -- the
> Red Hat
> bashingtourisback!
> 
> 
> --- 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.
> 
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