Re: [rhelv5-list] RH Satellite release news?

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On 5/23/07, Mikael Gueck <gumi iki fi> wrote:
> On 5/21/07, Oliver Schulze L. <oliver samera com py> wrote:
> > anyone knows or has info regarding the release of the source code of RH
> > Satellite?
> > http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070130-8737.html
> >
> > I have been waiting(since January) and searching google with no results.
>
> I emailed a polite question about this to Richard Friedman at Red Hat in
> March, but never got any reply back.
>
>  It's bound to be a interesting process. Is it the first time Red Hat has
> open sourced a proprietary application critical to their business model?

Depends on what you think is critical to their business model I guess.
Red Hat has open sourced important proprietary applications before,
like the directory services products acquired from Netscape.

I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that open sourcing the current
version of RHN would require disentanglement from a certain database
... probably not an easy task in the short term. Just one outsider's
guess. I'm not expecting it any time soon.

John