On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 14:04 +0100, Dominik Sk?adanowski wrote:
>
> > The arguments they gave to me were, what happen if redhat close the
> > base packages, they don't have to release them, but just to the buyer,
> > and we can't buy the distro, there are others distros like debian that
> > is totally free, and without dependencies of proprietary industry.
>
> To be honest I was anxious about that too.
> Take a look for a case of SuSE Linux Enterprise Server. Why Novell
> don't make available SRPMs the way RedHad do?
Novell has traditionally been a proprietary solutions provider. They
prefer keeping things close to their chest, even if it's a running
chainsaw. RH has a tradition of helping out where they can and letting
people do what they like.
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