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Corrections, but where to start

The author demonstrates a complete lack of understanding
of open source and open source projects.

Read about fedora here http://fedora.redhat.com/

"Fedora is Red Hat's free version of Linux, but unlike its
predecessors, it's intended chiefly for experimental use."

It is not intended for experimental use, it is free community
distribution sponsored by Red Hat for a complete Linux
distribution composed entirely of open source software.
Fedora can be used for any purpose, the only difference
with their other fee based distributions is Red Hat does not
provide support for this version, that is left to the fedora
community.

"The Fedora project is a formalization of some of the
workings of the open-source community"

It is not, it is simply the start of a new community under
the support and guidance of Red Hat - the fedora
community. Other communities are completely unaffected
by this project.

Red Hat has made a commercial decision to differentiate
their supported offerings and the faster paced fedora
distribution. Red Hat claims that their customers want
fewer major changes to the OS preferring stability, security,
compatibility and support and that their customers are
willing to pay for it. Other users want to stay closer to
bleeding edge (eg OpenOffice 1.1, Gnome 2.4, lastest gcc
compilers, etc) but are not inclined to spend much money
on it given the availability of alternative distributions.

Because of it more aggressive release cycle Red Hat
believed it was not in their interest to package and
distribute this product, rather leaving it to the community
to distribute it.

Fedora is completely open-sourced and anyone, like
myself, can use it to provide solutions for customers for
which they can charge a fee. Thank you Red Hat and all the
other Linux and BSD distributions. If Fedora does suit you
then choose an alternative - this is called freedom of
choice.

Posted by: Richard Flude   Posted on: 12/02/03 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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