Red Hat Linux becomes Fedora
Posted Sep 24, 2003 1:02 UTC (Wed) by
proski (subscriber, #104)
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Red Hat Linux becomes Fedora
As I understand it, making money from up2date didn't work. Now Red Hat will make money primarily from the enterprise editions of their products. The free distribution, on the other hand, will be more open and community oriented. That can introduce some instability, but it's probably the desired effect.
It's mostly a win-win situation. Users get timely updates for more than one system without need to resort to KRUD, freshrpms or manual download. Red Hat stays in a good shape financially. Red Hat Linux remains popular.
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