How many Fedora users are there?

How many Fedora users are there?

Posted Oct 12, 2006 4:24 UTC (Thu) by bojan (subscriber, #14302)
In reply to: How many Fedora users are there? by ajross
Parent article: How many Fedora users are there?

> When the point has been reached of even considering the possibility of terminating the community distribution, it is clear that this spirit is dead at Red Hat.

I respectfully disagree.

If a piece of software can be downloaded as a bunch of buildable SRPMS, it is free software. And that's RHEL. It is available free and it is open just like RH promised, keeping the spirit alive, with or without Fedora and regardless of what Jonathan Schwartz says.

In fact, if you don't like building RHEL from scratch, you can get a starting point by downloading ISOs from RH: http://www.redhat.com/rhel/details/eval/.

You and I may not like RHEL support pricing structure, but that's a whole different ball of wax.

If Red Hat see that providing financial support for Fedora is financially worse then not having Fedora, then they have to do what they have to do. But I'm not seeing they are considering that yet. They just want to know how they're spending their dollars. And that is a good thing, IMHO.

> Is it "bad business" to view the community as primary? Maybe. But in the open source world, it's also parasitic and selfish.

How can Red Hat be parasitic and selfish when you can download as FOSS almost all software that Red Hat wrote themselves, plus all the contributions they made to other projects, like glibc, gcc, kernel etc.? By paying developers to make this software, they are financing FOSS. There is nothing parasitic and selfish about that - the whole things ends up back in the community.

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