Bryan J. Smith wrote:
Fourth, as I have repeatedly stated, Conical will find itself in the same positions as Red Hat has more and more. Conical will address those situations much like Red Hat, and suffer the same, misguided but not so uncommon, "demonizations" as a result -- especially as it becomes less and less "new" to people.
I noticed that you always misspell Canonical as Conical. You might want to fix that before anyone mistakes it as some sort of deliberate insulting slang.
I agree with the basic assertion that Red Hat is better off because it already gone through the transition pain and succeeded in creating a business and larger community model that worked for the advantage of both. Whether it is the "best model" for either is anyone's guess. The things that touch upon control (be it for business, security or any other reasons) vs enabling enabling the community are just details of the larger view. The merge of core and extras has turned the level of package wrangling from repository management to ACL's as an current engaging example of this.
What Canonical is striving for is not something new and they have deliberated followed a Red Hat Linux like business strategy of a single product with optional support and services. It wins over a substantial number of users but unless the market is substantially changing they might end up rediscovering that pure support without product tie-up isn't very sustainable. It is good that they have the luxury of experimenting with this without the pressure of a being a public organization. We will get to know the success (or lack of it) in a few years.
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