Re: How to install XFCE on CentOS 8?

[Stephen John Smoogen <smooge@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 25 Feb 2021 at 17:26, Gionatan Danti <g.danti@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Il 2021-02-25 22:35 Stephen John Smoogen ha scritto:
> > Mainly because customers don't want to pay for that work which is
> > considerable. If Red Hat builds it, it is expected to have all kinds of
> > 'promises' equivalent to its other products and that is expensive in
> > terms
> > of QA, engineering, documentation, various certifications, etc. Package
> > growth goes up quickly so if people are complaining about the cost of a
> > RHEL license for 4000 src rpms, then what would it be at 20,000 to
> > 30,000.
> > It is easier to allow the community to choose to do the work it wants
> > and
> > then 'consumers' of said repository get what they can.
>
> [Including Valeri] I doubt it. Price is mainly defined by offer and
> demand (which is, in turn, driven by how much value the customer put
> behind the product). While production/support cost can put a lower bound
> on it, I don't think this is the case for Red Hat.
>

The fun part about this doubt is that anyone should be able to prove it
right or wrong easily. All it takes is to set up a build system, recompile
all the code from Fedora wanted in it, and then offer support contracts to
cover work on it. If there is a market for it then they can set the price
to cover all 20,000 packages and then find out what is expected by the
customer for the prices charged.


-- 
Stephen J Smoogen.
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