> Could you explain that a little better, I don't think I understand your > point. Even if you just have someone responding to bugzilla entries > saying "We don't ship it so we don't support it" that still costs money. > Hell, then you will have certain "news" sites that love to hate Red Hat > going off on tirades about how "you can easily install all of this > software, but Red Hat won't support you". Check the AS warranty - see what it says about unsupported products. I'm betting this already exists. Think about the NVIDIA drivers and kernel tainting. > > Then red hat better get out of the freesoftware business if this their > > concern. > > I don't think I get this one either. The current situation is that using > Red Hat tools you install packages that have been checked over by Red Hat. > There is a reasonable expectation that they will not included blatantly > evil code. With a third party you don't have that expectation (until the > third party has proved themselves). Right - but ultimately all code (excluding that which red hat developers, themselves, wrote) is "3rd party" The "checked over" just isn't possible given their resources. There is a lot of "trusting" that certain developers did the right thing. There has to be. -sv
