Re: The delays on CentOS 5.6 are causing EPEL incompatibilities

[William Warren <hescominsoon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 3/20/2011 3:30 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On 3/20/11 1:57 PM, Eero Volotinen wrote:
>> .
>>> I hope the situation may change now with Oracle in direct competition with
>>> RH
>>> for RH and RH-based distros user base. BTW Oracle offers installable
>>> binaries for free.
>> Yes, but patches (support) cost money, as you might know. Anyway, it
>> is better to pay for real
>> RH instead of oracle linux..
> Or, maybe there was back in the days when they released source that matched
> their binaries...  Personally, I think everyone would be better off today if
> they had turned their back on anything RH-related the day they stopped
> permitting redistribution of their binaries among the community that created
> them and made them usable in the first place.  I was too lazy to change and
> Centos made it look reasonable to leave things approximately the same.  But, now
> that RH is putting the screws on anyone who doesn't pay up it is probably time
> for anyone who cares about free software to rethink things.
>
exactly.  Nothing against Centos but I've deployed my last RH based 
box.  It'll be either Debian or Ubuntu from now on.
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