[Leaplist] Re: MS and Novel join forces -- personal/professional bias ...

[Bryan J. Smith]

On 11/3/06, Bryan J. Smith <thebs413 at gmail.com> wrote:
> As far as Red Hat, people have been talking about their demise for
> some time now.  I get slack from all sorts of distro bigots and the
> fact that everyone "complains" about Red Hat a partially due to
> rhetoric and not so much technical (or the technical is often without
> realizing what RHEL and/or Fedora Core are, based on non-enterprise
> solutions).

I'm completely biased in favor of Red Hat, and I won't deny it.  At
first, I denied being a Red Hat apologist, but I realize that I fit
the literal definition.

Understand that I'm not the only one, and there is a respect for Red
Hat because of not only Red Hat Linux in the past, but Fedora Core and
the greater Fedora Project even more so now.

Many of us stop to understand why Red Hat does things "the Red Hat
way," because there is a sound, technical reason in nearly all cases.
Especially now that Fedora Core is not a "product" like Red Hat Linux
was.

That feeds a lot of continued Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscriptions,
as well as not merely just advocacy, but donation/volunteering towards
Fedora Core and RHEL itself.  Especially at a corporate level.

But it's good to see similar with the changes Novell has made to how
SuSE operates in the few years of its ownership.  Especially OpenSuSE
and the GPL'ing of SuSE's core.  They are gathering the same level of
respect as well, especially on the IP sharing front and former UNIX(R)
ownership which Red Hat can't offer similarly.