[Foss-cafe] Sun Sticks 'Proprietary' Label on Red Hat Linux

[Aaron J. Seigo]

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On April 27, 2004 09:50, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1573433,00.asp?kc=ewnws042704dtx1k0000
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> Nice to hear someone say this.

nice? Schwartz's commentary on Red Hat is FUDish and innacurate. Red Hat is 
100% Open Source; they also follow (and help create) the LSB, Freedesktop.org 
and other such standards. yes, they charge for support of their Enterprise 
products, but as they EOL product other people pick up the support of it 
which shows that it isn't a lock-in situation (as it is with Solaris, for 
instance). Schwartz is being completely disingenuous here, not to mention 
hypocrtical as you note next:

> But, the question is. will Sun start providing their own totally
> non-proprietary Linux distro?  Please.

now, i don't use much Red Hat these days (have one box around here running 
FC1), but i still don't think it's fair to drag their name through the mud 
with falsehoods. they have, and continue to do, a lot for and with Free 
Software. Sun, in their ever-growing irrelevance, seems to be looking to pick 
fights with those it should be cooperating with.

then again, i suppose Red Hat doesn't have $2Billion for them.

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