Delay? Looks bad for Fedora

Timothy Murphy tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie
Tue Nov 4 13:08:54 UTC 2003


On Tuesday 04 November 2003 01:08, Gordon Messmer wrote:

> > The move to fedora was a mistake for RedHat.  I understand why they did
> > it, but they went too far and discarded loyal users ( some paying some
> > not.
>
> There seem to be a lot of people voicing the opinion that this is a move
> to abandon the Free Software community. 

That didn't seem to be what the poster was saying.
He was expressing the view -- which I share --
was that the development may be bad _for RedHat_.

To me, the RH/Fedora thing is just very confusing,
and I don't want to spend a lot of time thinking (or reading) about it.

I'm actually running Fedora on one desktop, and RH-9.0 on another,
and both are running perfectly.
But I knew exactly where I was with RH-6-7-8-9,
and I don't feel I know exactly where I am with Fedora.

Like many others, I am occasionally asked about commercial installations,
and I've always recommended RedHat.
I probably still will do so, but not with the same enthusiasm.

So I don't think RedHat is wicked --
I just think they may have made a commercial mistake.

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