Re: [oscg-general] Why CentOS 6 doesn't exist yet....
From
Lussier, Denis
Mar 1, 2011 10:17 AM
Seems RedHat is reasonably exercising some of it's GPL rights to make it
less convenient for Oracle and CentOS (and ...) to piggyback on their
efforts.
The downside for RH is that as each day goes by, RHEL becomes less and less
the Gold Standard in Enterprise Linux.
On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 9:31 AM, Scott Mead <scottm@openscg.com> wrote:
> It seems that RedHat has gotten a bit angry and made it nearly impossible
> for anybody else to do a rebuild:
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> http://lwn.net/Articles/430098/
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> One of my favorite comments from that:
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> Official (and disappointing) answer from RH press service :
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> *Hi Patrick
> We have no comment.
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> thanks,
> Kerri
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> Scott Mead
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Seems RedHat is reasonably exercising some of it's GPL rights to make it less convenient for Oracle and CentOS (and ...) to piggyback on their efforts.<br><br>The downside for RH is that as each day goes by, RHEL becomes less and less the Gold Standard in Enterprise Linux.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 9:31 AM, Scott Mead <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:scottm@openscg.com">scottm@openscg.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
It seems that RedHat has gotten a bit angry and made it nearly impossible for anybody else to do a rebuild:<br><br><a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/430098/" target="_blank">http://lwn.net/Articles/430098/</a><br><br>One of my favorite comments from that:<br>
<br><br>>>> <i>I'm waiting for an official answer from Kerri Catallozzi.</i><br><br>
Official (and disappointing) answer from RH press service :<br><br>
<b>Hi Patrick<br>
We have no comment.<br><br>
thanks,<br>
Kerri<br><br><br><br clear="all"></b>--<div>Scott Mead</div><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><br><div><br></div><br>
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