On Wednesday 07 April 2004 10:57, Stephen Smoogen wrote: > Jesse, you need to look at this as a business oppurtunity for your > VAR. You now can charge big bucks to add selinux=0 in grub.conf for > the 'meatheads' who cant do it themselves ;) Of course we can do it here at the office, and we will be for all systems going out unless specifically requested not to by the customer, and after the customer is informed of all the extra work involved in maintaining a SELinux enabled system. This isn't my concern. My concern is the perception that people (like my customers) will have with a move to have SELinux enabled by default in FC2. The perception that FC is just a way to get cheap (free) beta testers for live grenades tossed out there for possible inclusion to a retail (expensive) product will only be solidified. Then VARs like us who relied upon RHL for keeping the bottom line down and the quality up will have to look elsewhere. RHEL3 is way too expensive for our bottom line, FC could turn out to be too much like a RHEL beta product, and there is nothing left under RH's umbrella. This means we'll have to look elsewhere. 6~8 months ago, the "elsewhere" was pretty bleak, but with moves that Novell has been making the "elsewhere" is starting to look more and more viable as an alternative. I think the strong handed tactics that RH has been using worked before when there was no decent alternative, but times are changing and VARs like the one I work for are changing as well. When no VARs can afford to use a RH product for their customers, how long until market share for an RH product drops off? A little guy alone can't do much damage, but a whole lot of little guys have a way of causing havoc. </soapbox> These of course are just my opinions and thoughts. People are free to agree/disagree/ignore them. I welcome thoughts/feedback. -- Jesse Keating RHCE (geek.j2solutions.net) Fedora Legacy Team (www.fedoralegacy.org) GPG Public Key (geek.j2solutions.net/jkeating.j2solutions.pub) Was I helpful? Let others know: http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=jkeating
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