Re: What do you think of Centos

I agree with the comments below. I think it is important however, that
we have people with an "out of the box approach" making additions to
what Redhat has started. Sometimes making drastic direction changes to
a distro is difficult with out re-spinning the distro.

If a re-spin is done, then I think it should be upto the distro
maintainers to maintain their sources separate from Redhat, and not just
respin every update/release of Redhat's RPMS. If your name goes on the
box, I think you should be making major contributions and maintaining
that distro and not just putting your name on it.

---
Robert


On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 10:41 -0600, Christofer C. Bell wrote:
On 2/22/06, linux.whiz@xxxxxxxxx <linux.whiz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I personally think that the CentOS project and Whitebox and those re-spins
of RHEL are pretty much ripping off Red Hat. Red Hat spends a ton of money,
time and effort in making their enterprise distro. They give the entire
thing to the community via the Fedora project. As required by the terms of
the GPL, they release everything for RHEL as source RPMs. Then the clone
distros come along and respin them and give them away.

While this is perfectly legal, I think it dilutes the value of what Red Hat
is doing. "Legal" does not necessarily mean "right." The respin distros
don't really innovate, they just leech off the work that Red Hat has done.
IMHO, if you want the benefit of Red Hat's work, you should support them by
either buying their products or using FC and contributing back to the
project. Even if that contribution is just filing bug reports or answering
questions on the mailing lists/forums, it is contributing back to Red Hat.

Let's not forget how much Red Hat is spending to give us FC - I think we
should reward them for that however we can, not leech off them.

I really really nate "me too" posts, but this is something I very
strongly agree with. My sense of ethics prevents me from using or
recommending any rip-off of RHEL.

--
Chris

"I trust the Democrats to take away my money, which I can afford. I
trust the Republicans to take away my freedom, which I cannot."


--
fedora-list mailing list
fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx
To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

Relevant Pages

  • Re: What do you think of Centos
    ... of RHEL are pretty much ripping off Red Hat. ... they release everything for RHEL as source RPMs. ... it is contributing back to Red Hat. ... to sense of pocketbook ethics for, ...
    (Fedora)
  • Re: Yum repo compatibility
    ... >> This should also be appealing to Red Hat, since having a wide set of extra ... >> tools and packages that also work for RHEL will only help in selling Red ... > I doubt that extra packages alone increase Red Hat's sales. ... having a set of 1500 extra packages extending the distro of your ...
    (Fedora)
  • Re: What do you think of Centos
    ... of RHEL are pretty much ripping off Red Hat. ... they release everything for RHEL as source RPMs. ... it is contributing back to Red Hat. ... "I trust the Democrats to take away my money, ...
    (Fedora)
  • Re: Online resizing support for ext3 in RHEL 4
    ... RHEL questions should be posted to the distribution-specific lists, ... You'll get far better reponses that way since the Red Hat ... To which Shadowman replies: ...
    (RedHat)
  • Re: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4?
    ... I have RHEL ver 3 and 4 i bought 3 and got the upgrade to four for free ... might think of it as a service pack maybe. ... Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS ...
    (linux.redhat)