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From: Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu (Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu) Subject: Fw: Red Hat Linux end-of-life update and transition planning On Tue, 04 Nov 2003 10:25:55 EST, Eric Bowser said: > Fedora seems like it will be unstable/difficult to patch/*insert > whatever here* in an intentional effort to extract money from users for > the enterprise version. I don't debate the business sense behind their > decisions, but they have made a viable OS available for years, gotten > everybody addicted, and then replaced it with your choice of headaches, > or a pay-to-play product. Don't drug dealers do that? On the other hand, commercial OS's tend to be *really* static, without much innovation - look at IBM's z/OS, there's still remnants in there from OS/360 in 1964. People complain that Solaris hasn't picked up <whatever> that other vendors have been doing for years. That's the price of stability. You should be glad that RedHat is willing to finance a distro where the Next Big Thing can develop, even if it isn't their official product. It's quite possibly the best thing that could have happened to *both* RedHat and Fedora lines - now there's no longer the big stability/innovation conflict that having one product line trying to do both had. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 226 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/attachments/20031104/50c9a076/attachment.bin
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