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In defense of UbuntuIn defense of UbuntuPosted Aug 22, 2008 11:48 UTC (Fri) by miahfost (guest, #51602)In reply to: In defense of Ubuntu by nlucas Parent article: In defense of Ubuntu
Red Hat was vilified in the linux community because it took a very popular product (Red Hat Linux) and made it proprietary. New updates to Red Hat Linux required paid subscription. They quickly realized their folly and created Fedora to soothe angry users. Personally I am suspicious of a distro that starts free and becomes closed. This is why I use debian which will _always_ be free.
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In defense of Ubuntu Posted Aug 23, 2008 23:44 UTC (Sat) by salimma (subscriber, #34460) [Link] Red Hat started the Fedora project as the replacement for the discontinued Red Hat Linux; if you look at their release history, you'd find that at no time do Red Hat users lack a free-to-use option. The difference between the RHL and Fedora days is that previously, you could actually get paid support from Red Hat for running RHL on your desktop. With the RHEL/Fedora split, Red Hat is actually making it *harder* for individual users to give them money. Try getting an individual subscription to RHEL if you think Red Hat is chasing after your money. They make it easy for clones like White Box, CentOS etc. as well, by releasing the SRPMs for RHEL and making sure their trademarked artworks are easy to remove.
In defense of Ubuntu Posted Aug 29, 2008 7:11 UTC (Fri) by linuxrocks123 (guest, #34648) [Link]
https://www.redhat.com/apps/store/desktop/
You have a point in that Red Hat is no longer going after the home desktop market, but it is still fairly easy to get an individual desktop subscription to RHEL if you want.
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