In defense of Ubuntu

In defense of Ubuntu

Posted Aug 23, 2008 23:44 UTC (Sat) by salimma (subscriber, #34460)
In reply to: In defense of Ubuntu by miahfost
Parent article: In defense of Ubuntu

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.

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