My problem is this--how available will third-party applications and software be now, that to have a copy of Red Hat Enterprise Linux requires a purchase? Who is going to buy a copy of it just to continue development for it? Will I find myself unable to install ClamAV because the developers of ClamAV don't feel like purchasing RHEL? I understand that this is a little dramatic. But inevitably I can see a user who only works with RPM's, wanting to have virus scanning capabilities on their server, but can't because there is no ClamAV RPM. Is this clear? I just have the feeling that people like the ones developing MailScanner\MailWatch\SpamAssassin won't have 'RHEL installation how-to's' for their software pretty soon and where will that leave us? Dependant upon Red Hat for these things, (Who didn't even include the Bayesian learning part of SpamAssassin?)
Sure, I can download the source and try building it myself, but now I'm so far away from what attracted me to Red Hat in the first place. Granted, I had to install from tarballs the afore mentioned apps, but it went just as smooth as an RPM install. And I'm sure it only went this smooth because the authors have been developing for RH (as well as others) only because RH was freely available. That is not the case any longer. I just really find myself trying to recall the value that I saw in Red Hat before.
I have used ONLY Red Hat for so long now that I have no problem moving into RHEL, but I still want to be able to whip together a solution like I have with my mail server. What will Red Hat do to provide these kind of options to us from here on out? Surely these are options that are still desired by RHEL users right?
Does anyone have any arguments to offer pro/con? I pose this question to both the users list and the RHN list as I feel that this is relevant to both. Am I wrong?
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