Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on February 18, 2004 10:32 PM
I have been a long time Red Hat user and developer.
I think they have forgotten who got them where they are today. With IBM, et al, getting into the act of developing for Linux, they probably feel like they don't need the home developer anymore; And that might be accurate.
How it was, was that we would put together some software, and they would coordinate testing and package it nicely for a reasonable amount of money.
Now it reads that we develop it, and they will package it into some beta product (Fedora) that we are welcome to test for them too - but don't even think about an affordable version of a stable system that the community has written.
My question is: Where is the payback to the community? Some stripped down system? Some beta system? Yea, I really feel like my efforts are appreciated by Red Hat.
Personally, when I read the write up of WS on Red Hat's site, I decided to head back to slackware or try out Suse.
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Seems they forgot who got them there
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on February 18, 2004 10:32 PMI think they have forgotten who got them where they are today. With IBM, et al, getting into the act of developing for Linux, they probably feel like they don't need the home developer anymore; And that might be accurate.
How it was, was that we would put together some software, and they would coordinate testing and package it nicely for a reasonable amount of money.
Now it reads that we develop it, and they will package it into some beta product (Fedora) that we are welcome to test for them too - but don't even think about an affordable version of a stable system that the community has written.
My question is: Where is the payback to the community? Some stripped down system? Some beta system? Yea, I really feel like my efforts are appreciated by Red Hat.
Personally, when I read the write up of WS on Red Hat's site, I decided to head back to slackware or try out Suse.
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