Redhat

[Robert Meyer]

OK, here's my spin on it:

RedHat has been offering the downloads of their desktop version for quite a
while.  I'm sure that they don't pay the bills for the resources that this
costs with the downloads.  I suspect that what they're going to do is push the
whole system into OpenSource land but they will be the main collection and
integration point for the system.  Then they'll pick out the good bits and put
them in their corporate editions.  The OpenSource version will still be under
the control of RedHat but will be more accessable to the O/S communitity.  I
think that this may be a Good Thing (tm).

Cheers!

Bob
--- Asheville Joe <josephj at main.nc.us> wrote:
> What does this mean to a desktop user?  Is RedHat going to continue to 
> bea viable system for end users (as opposed to enterprise users)?  I 
> know it's well thought of and widely used now and I know almost all the 
> rest of Linux was developed without companies, but when support systems 
> change, especially radically, it makes people nervous.  Do any of you 
> have a sense of what sort of developer support there is or will be for 
> Fedora?
> 
> Joe
> 
> Cyber Source wrote:
> 
> > Here's the story--> 
> > http://www.arnnet.com.au/index.php?id=357123420&fp=16&fpid=0 
> > <http://www.arnnet.com.au/index.php?id=357123420&fp=16&fpid=0>
> > On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 09:31, Justin Bennett wrote:
> >
> >>/Did you guys see Redhat has spun off the Redhat 9 trunk. They are 
> >>focusing on the enterrpise. It's now an opensource project called Fedora./
> >>/http://fedora.redhat.com/
> >>
> >>Doesn't affect us that much, we are in the final stages of converting to 
> >>Redhat Enterpise anyways, was too much of a hassle to reload servers 
> >>every year when a new release came out ( especially our servers in 
> >>europe) and they stop making patches. It may affect those like Bob and 
> >>Pete that use it alot on the desktop.
> >>
> >>Justin/
> >>
> > -- Cyber Source <peter at thecybersource.com 
> > <mailto:peter at thecybersource.com>>
> >
> >
> >  
> >
> 
> -- 
> "It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking
> and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution
> before tomorrow morning." -- Henry Ford
> 
> 


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