Re:Say it aint so Rhat

[Adam <adam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

 From          : klug>klug-request
 To            : adam
 Subject       : Say it aint so Rhat
 Date          : 08/11/99 09:11


>"Red Hat's installation wizards for Linux will be proprietary. Good for
>shareholders, but bad for the open source community."
>http://www.zdnet.com/enterprise/linux/news/0,6423,2310504,00.html
>Have you guys heard anything about this. According to this story RedHat is
>going to make proprietary software.

Please remember it is only an "installation wizard",  it is still installing
Linux.  IMHO, several distributions have had "proprietary" installs for
some time.

>May I quote Robert Young from the book Open Sources.
>"Red hat is not licensing intellectual property over which it has ownership.
>That's not the economic model that will support our customers, staff and
>shareholders."
>what happened here?

They are trying to have a competitive advantage.  They have no other product
other than Linux, which is open.  All a distribution can do is to imrpove
that packageing,  something RedHat has done an excellent, and in my
opinion the best, job at.