Florin Andrei said: > On Mon, 2003-05-26 at 19:01, seth vidal wrote: >> >> the Red Hat Linux line is now considered for "home users and hobbyists" >> according to the info on the webpage. >> Red Hat Enterprise Linux is for production/server/etc use. >> So why shouldn't devel of RHL be more influenced by the demands of the >> end user - the hobbyist - the more common OSS developer? >> Red Hat won't gain much revenue from the hobbyist user in RHL anyway - >> at least not through up2date/rhn. So why not include a third party >> updater? > > Duh. Because then people will start using that freeware gizmo on the > enterprise thing, and will stop paying big money for the Satellite or > whatever it's called... A more plausible scenario would be that people would use this freeware gizmo to grab non-Red Hat packages, bork their system, then flood the mailing lists and bugzilla with problems. For example, I see messages in the FreshRPMS.net archives about people using apt getting bit by the i386/i686 downgrade bug in glibc. Or worse yet, one of these third party packages has a Trojan/Backdoor that the unwashed masses think came from Red Hat and Red Hat gets a ton of bad press. -- William Hooper
