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Election 2006 (and beyond): Digital Copyright Canada
From: Russell McOrmond <russell_-at-_flora.ca>
To: Free/Libre and Open Source Software in Community Networking <comnet-www_-at-_flora.org>
Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2003 18:35:42 -0500 (EST)
More FYI... --- Russell McOrmond, Internet Consultant: <http://www.flora.ca/> Governance software that controls ICT, automates government policy, or electronically counts votes, shouldn't be bought any more than politicians should be bought. -- http://www.flora.ca/russell/ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2003 22:18:51 +0000 From: Chris Croome <chris@croome.net> Reply-To: list-en@oekonux.org To: Project Oekonoux <list-en@oekonux.org> Subject: [ox-en] RedHat and Fedora and SuSE and Novell -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi The latest version of RedHat will be out this week and it will be called Fedora 1 not Redhat 10. There has been lots of negative press regarding the lack of a RedHat 10 distro with box sets and support for sale from RedHat, for example: Red Hat Linux Support To End http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/11/03/1749259 Red Hat realignment opens door for Red Carpet http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/11/03/2136258 Red Hat tells customers, 'No more freebies!" http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/11/03/1657205 Though not long ago there was a more positive discussion: Red Hat Linux Project Merges With Fedora http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/22/1712227 Progeny Brings Red Hat and Debian Closer Together http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/10/25/1345240 I think that RedHat opening up the development process to the community, via Fedora [1] is a great thing. The exchange value of a Fedora CD set is basically the cost of producing and shipping them, there is some money to be made there but not much. I think this is why RedHat are concentrating on selling services to businesses. Fedora is called Fedora in part because of the merger with the Fedora Linux Project [2], a group who were producing 3rd party RPMs for machines running RedHat and also to enable the free as in free beer distribution to be reproduced en mass by anyone without having the hassle or revoving the RedHat logo before burning the iso's [3]. However Redhat could do what Mozilla does, sell cheap Mozilla CDs [3] or what OpenOffice.org does, link to people selling OpenOffice.org CDs [4]. After all RedHat still sells hats, stickets t-shirts and posters! [5]. I have been lurking and sometimes reading mail on the new Fedora lists [6] and lots of cool stuff has been happening, PPC ports, offers to help on internationalisation, the inclusion of more packages, support for other updaters like apt and yum and even a legacy project to support old RedHat versions is being started. What is essentially happening here is that the free software mode of production is asserting it's nature and getting more into the driving seat -- free software works best when it is developed in an open and free manner. In the meantime SuSE has been brought by Novell whome IBM have taken a big stake in. This get's loads of support and postive press: Novell Announces Agreement to Acquire SUSE http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/11/04/1336252 FLASH - Novell buys SuSE http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/11/04/1332252 I don't know what will happen with SuSE, will they realise that to survive they have to open up their development process and thus ceed control to the community or will the hierarchical command structures of capital try to hang on to this distrubtion? Chris References 1. http://fedora.redhat.org/ 2. http://www.fedora.us/ 3. http://fedora.redhat.com/about/trademarks/guidelines/ 4. http://store.mozilla.org/ 5. http://distribution.openoffice.org/cdrom/ 6. http://www.redhat.com/apps/commerce/coolstuff.html 7. http://fedora.redhat.com/participate/communicate/ - -- http://chris.croome.net/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/qCXKIQYsxIuy3pERAoxHAJ9g1YBcUBOQuhrRBlC0m0gY6dKlIwCgnJW7 BwmRmDp7NHsiZe9mgt8M6ro= =FYMF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________ http://www.oekonux.org/
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