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Going hybrid (The Economist)
The Economist says,
Rumours of open-source software's demise are exaggerated.
"Having shown that there is, in many cases, a better way to develop
code is undoubtedly the open-source movement's biggest achievement so
far. And if Linux does one day become the standard for operating systems,
as some enthusiasts predict, it will have taught the computer industry
that it is more efficient to maintain its software infrastructure
collectively. This would be bad news for Microsoft and Sun, but it would
benefit customers--through greater competition, lower prices and, not
least, better software." (Thanks to David A. Wheeler)
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Going hybrid (The Economist) Posted Aug 3, 2002 3:29 UTC (Sat) by mlearl (guest, #3093) [Link] That Economist article appeared to claim that Redhat Advanced Server is not entirely open-source. Is this correct?I notice that RH's corporate marketing seems... careful not to contradict anyone who might assume that, but I can't find a 100% clear statement at redhat.com one way or the other on this. I know they don't publish RHAS ISOs, for example, but the GPL doesn't really require that. Anybody know what's really up with that?
Going hybrid (The Economist) Posted Aug 3, 2002 4:09 UTC (Sat) by skvidal (subscriber, #3094) [Link] The economist has it wrong. RHAS is still open source. They are not releasing isos and its not obvious if they are releasing binary rpms. But they are definitely releasing the source to ALL of it.
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