Technically the sources are GPLed so the provider never has to have a subscription or SLA of any kind to be entitled to the source code. Additionally WBEL scrubs the source of trade marks prior to recompile, so you can use WBEL without voiding RHEL SLAs. Same goes for progeny. However, I agree with you that using these products reduces the incentive for the companies to continue releasing and maintaining the products. Personally I'm leaning heavily towards using Progeny, but if we do so, it will be under straightforward terms. We will pay for every box that uses the RPMs even though we will be maintaining our own repository and could get away with hell. The reason is quite simple. $60/yr per box is affordable, and if enough people pay it, Progeny will make money and continue providing the service. Now WBEL on the other hand, I do use at home for development and experimentation. At work, in production, we pay for it. It's also good for academia. RH's refusal to reduce their rates and offer RHEL under affordable terms to academic institutions already excludes those potential consumers who now must find alternate solutions. I should think RH would be better off with those consumers then using WBEL instead of SUSE, Mandrake, Debian or another alternative. This way they still can maintain mind-share they way they formerly did with the standard RH line. Most of the customers RHEL is targeting won't touch WBEL anyway since support for it is an unknown and though it may be technically legal, it smells sketchy. I think RH has already realizes that WBEL is not a threat, and that it may even be good for RHEL. This would explain why they haven't made any efforts to F* w/ WBEL. Sorry if my 2 cents is a little off topic. BTW: 1. Ray Ferguson 2. Madison, WI 3. Operations Engineer 4. Berbee 5. Goals: provide migration solution. 6. Qualifications: unimportant as I do not have time to contribute. I will let you know if this changes. -ray. On Friday 16 January 2004 12:19 pm, Chris Spencer wrote: > Things like that will probably make sure progeny makes no effort to > continue the service. > > Besides which it does actually violate the SLA that the subscribers > agree to so whoever chooses to provide updates in this way can be cut > off from updates from Progeny. > > The same is true for whitebox Linux. > > > -Chris > > On Fri, 2004-01-16 at 12:01, Jason wrote: > > This is interesting, in that it'll give us a bit of insight into how > > progeny handles these updates.. and their src.rpm's may be valuable to > > verify patches that we apply from other sources. But, I think we should > > resist the temptation to merely copy their work. After all, when FC1 > > eol's we'll certainly need to be able to stand on our own merit. > > > > -jason > > > > On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 07:43:41PM +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote: > > > Thought you folks might be interested... > > > > > > - Panu - > > > > > > -----Forwarded Message----- > > > From: Ryan Finnie <ryan@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > To: whitebox-devel@xxxxxxxx > > > Subject: [WBEL-devel] Rebuilt Progeny RPMs for RHL 7.2/7.3/8.0 > > > Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 04:34:49 -0800 > > > > > > http://oss.redundant.com/pub/party-updates/ > > > > > > I'm taking the white box linux approach for the update RPMs that > > > Progeny is releasing for EOL'd RHL releases. If you still have some > > > 7.2/7.3/8.0 boxes around (as I do), this should help you out. > > > > > > BTW, yum rocks. I don't know why I haven't played with it until > > > recently. > > > > > > RF > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Whitebox-devel mailing list > > > Whitebox-devel@xxxxxxxx > > > http://beau.org/mailman/listinfo/whitebox-devel > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > fedora-legacy-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legacy-list > > "Why, of course, the people don't want war... Voice or no voice, the > people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders... All you > have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the > pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It > works the same in any country." - Nazi Hermann Goering, at the Nuremberg > war-crimes tribunal > > > > -- > > fedora-legacy-list@xxxxxxxxxx > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legacy-list
