They give the impression that Linux can be subject to the same abandonware problems as any commercial product. That's a feeling that many of us thought we'd never have to experience again.
So now the truth comes out at last. You are letting your feelings, your emotions, stand in the way of reason.
Reason says that all of Red Hat's software is GPLed, so by definition it cannot be abandonware. If Red Hat drops something, anyone else can pick it up, dust it off, and keep going.
Reason says that RHL7.2-9 customers have not been abandoned. The <A HREF="http://www.fedoralegacy.org/" TITLE="fedoralegacy.org">Fedora Legacy Project</a fedoralegacy.org> serves them very well with painless errata updates. In fact, much of the support for Fedora Legacy comes (unofficially) from Red Hat.
Reason says that Red Hat never abandoned the market they had served with RHL. While not officially recommended for production use, Fedora Core fills the low-end support-it-yourself market quite ably. Yes, I do run certain production servers on Fedora and yes, I am satisfied with its quality.
I am in no way affiliated with Red Hat, other than that I use their products; I am merely tired of reading all of these assinine, emotion-based arguments disparaging an otherwise fine company.
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Posted by: lordcorusa on May 07, 2004 02:02 PMThey give the impression that Linux can be subject to the same abandonware problems as any commercial product. That's a feeling that many of us thought we'd never have to experience again.
So now the truth comes out at last. You are letting your feelings, your emotions, stand in the way of reason.
Reason says that all of Red Hat's software is GPLed, so by definition it cannot be abandonware. If Red Hat drops something, anyone else can pick it up, dust it off, and keep going.
Reason says that RHL7.2-9 customers have not been abandoned. The <A HREF="http://www.fedoralegacy.org/" TITLE="fedoralegacy.org">Fedora Legacy Project</a fedoralegacy.org> serves them very well with painless errata updates. In fact, much of the support for Fedora Legacy comes (unofficially) from Red Hat.
Reason says that Red Hat never abandoned the market they had served with RHL. While not officially recommended for production use, Fedora Core fills the low-end support-it-yourself market quite ably. Yes, I do run certain production servers on Fedora and yes, I am satisfied with its quality.
I am in no way affiliated with Red Hat, other than that I use their products; I am merely tired of reading all of these assinine, emotion-based arguments disparaging an otherwise fine company.
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