Enterprise Linux: is it broken?

Enterprise Linux: is it broken?

Posted Nov 4, 2004 15:35 UTC (Thu) by cdmiller (subscriber, #2813)
Parent article: Enterprise Linux: is it broken?

I have no problem with RedHat's strategy. It is a side effect of becoming a public company. The focus shifts a bit more towards profits and the bottom line. Hopefully it won't distract from producing great free software. I suspect if their profit motive does eventually distract from keeping up the software, some developers will find other places they would rather work.

There is no such thing as vendor lock in with libre software. We had no trouble moving our servers from RedHat 9 to Mandrake 10 when we found RHEL priced out of our acceptable range. We also flirted with SUSE and debian. Several 3rd parties provide the same levels of support for Mandrake etc. as they do for RedHat and Fedora.

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