Fedora Project: Announcing New Direction

[Sean Middleditch]

On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 14:37, Otto Haliburton wrote:

> Actually, RHL is taking the same exit from the open source community that
> SCO did.  RHL wants to be commercial and one of the obstacles to being
> commercial is to have your source being developed by the open source
> community (that doesn't mean that it is bad in anyway), because you don't
> control the license or the patent so you are limited as to what you can
> charge i.e. RHL can only profit from support and not from the sell of the
> product.  So the model is to drop the open source community and adopt a
> product which you license and patent and raise the price.  Exactly what SCO
> did.

What the heck are you smoking?  Fedora is 100% open source.  Redhat's
commercial product is the exact samething, just with older/more-tested
packages and some tweaks, for the most part.  If I recall, RHEL is
*also* 100% open source.  There is no dumping of open source anywhere in
this picture.

Fedora Linux *is* "Redhat Linux", just with a different name and a
*more* open development model.

Sheesh.
-- 
Sean Middleditch <elanthis at awesomeplay.com>
AwesomePlay Productions, Inc.