[colug-432] Source Code from Red Hat; Two Rs

[John Pease]

Well, I can't keep my opinions to myself.

You could not be a bigger hypocrite by complaining about this article
citing it as the reason for your usage of SuSE. Novell is terrible,
and by supporting them (even by using a community release) you are
essentially giving a big middle finger to the community. Yes, call it
a "religious war" if you will, but you can't deny that your smirky
comment that had absolutely no substance or value to it started this
whole thing. If you would like to know how preposterously ignorant you
sound by your backhanded comment about RedHat's decision (which if you
had read the aricle it is worth pointing out: "I'll not lose sleep on
the matter," CentOS co-founder Russ Herold tells The Reg. ) I suggest
you read up on Novell's many unforgivable betrayals of the Open Source
community.

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/exec/steve/2006/11-02NovellInterop.mspx

Please read:
http://techrights.org/category/novell/


<angelo at mccomis.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 3:06 PM, R P Herrold <herrold at owlriver.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, 5 Mar 2011, Angelo McComis wrote:
>>
>> > And therein lies validation for our decision to use SuSE for our
>> > enterprise Linux distribution.
>>
>> oh please
>>
>> -- the Novell licenses effectively have kept a community
>> distribution from emerging, speaking as a community
>> distribution builder who have read them, seen the inability to
>> get a self-hosting distribution, and knows after testing
>> builds
>>
>> enjoy your chains
>>
>> -- Russ herrold
>>
>
>  Ahh -- the stuff religious wars are made of!
>
> SuSE has a community release, called OpenSuSE, which is slightly different
> approach to community. It is unlike their SLES release, and you are correct,
> they do that to make a pathway towards their for-profit product.
>
> Mind you, no solution is perfect. Every company is out to make a buck. I get
> it. And by the way, I thoroughly admire and appreciate what you personally
> do for the CentOS / Linux community, Russ.  We need more people like you out
> there.
>
> Consider the reasons for RedHat to do this. These other vendors must be
> making enough impact to be visible on the balance sheet, thus creating
> enough ROI opportunity in order to fund the effort to make this change.
>
>
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