Re: Free software & commercialisation (was: Re: [Fsfe-uk] BECTA discriminate against FLOSS?)

[Ramanan Selvaratnam]

Hi,

Sometime back a discussion on RedHat meandered away in many different
directions. To avoid resurrecting any arguments I found the best thread
as time permitted and wish to paste the mail below in the hope anyone
reading the thread will see that RedHat are a good company.

> > No official or paid-for support for Fedora.  But of course anything the
> > users and developers do in Fedora will be fed back to their sold
> > 'Enterprise' product.
> 
> The source to RHEL is available too, as I understand it, on the same
> basis as RedHat used to be available (Lance would know more about this
> though). I would guess the vast majority of it is free software.
> 
> Personally, I'm not sure what problem you see in Fedora -> RHEL patch
> movement. They do pay for most (all?) of the Fedora developers at the
> moment, and given they're just making a distro they will always be
> living off vastly other people's work. But I am a Fedora user, so.... ;)


I do not use Fedora. But I think RedHat might deliver more goodies when
they have time to concentrate on other directions than the desktop
market... 


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Red Hat to contribute eCos copyrights to FSF 
  By brian, 2004-01-14 10:19:43 
  Section: News

Red Hat has announced that the copyright for eCos
[http://sources.redhat.com/ecos/], its embedded realtime operating
system,
will be transfered to the Free Software Foundation. The eCos operating
system is free software under the GNU GPL, with linking exceptions. More
details are available from Redhat.com
[http://www.redhat.com/about/presscenter/2004/press_eCosFSF.html]. 

http://www.gnu-friends.org/story/2004/1/14/101917/668


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