[Dominic Harr]

Red Hat Drops Free Linux!

Uh, not exactly.

They're re-naming their free line to 'Fedora'.

And they're focusing their business on 'Enterprise-class' work. They obviously think they can compete with IBM, Sun and MS for a chunk of that market. It's a tactical choice, the same one made by IBM. It makes sense, for IBM, who makes most of their real money from hardware and software infrastructure.

I'm not sure I think it's a smart choice for Red Hat, but it is their choice.

And this once again underscores perhaps the biggest single reason to use Linux -- Linux will go on. If you're not happy with this, you can go with one of a dozen other distros.

If you were on a highly proprietary OS, like Solaris or Win2K3Server, and they made some move like this, you'd be screwed.

[Truth666]

In a totalitaran environment you don't need to be afraid to make "mistakes"

[Truth666]

The battle between Microsoft and freedom loving persons

1. Microsoft sells Windows with security holes that are not revealed
2. One of these security holes is exposed by a freedom loving person.
3. Microsoft makes no clear statement about which Windows versions are affected.
4. Microsoft orders an update.
5. This way Microsoft ensures that the exposed hole is closed and at the same time a few new holes are added.
6. Freedom loving persons start looking for holes from scratch.

[Bush2000]

Uh, not exactly. They're re-naming their free line to 'Fedora'.

Rrrrrright, Harr. Fedora is going to end up like Mozilla. Tepid support. Not widely used.