<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 3:06 PM, R P Herrold <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:herrold@owlriver.com">herrold@owlriver.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Sat, 5 Mar 2011, Angelo McComis wrote:<br>
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> And therein lies validation for our decision to use SuSE for our<br>
> enterprise Linux distribution.<br>
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</div>oh please<br>
<br>
-- the Novell licenses effectively have kept a community<br>
distribution from emerging, speaking as a community<br>
distribution builder who have read them, seen the inability to<br>
get a self-hosting distribution, and knows after testing<br>
builds<br>
<br>
enjoy your chains<br>
<br>
-- Russ herrold<br>
<div><div></div><br></div></blockquote></div><br><font color="#330033"><font size="2"><font face="verdana,sans-serif"> Ahh
-- the stuff religious wars are made of! <br><br>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. <br>
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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.<br><br>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. <br></font></font></font><br>