Views from an Red Hat -> Ubuntu -> Fedora migrator

[Ben Walton]

On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 4:42 PM, Lennart Sorensen
<lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 07:34:09AM +0100, Ben Walton wrote:
>> That matches my experience as well and also demonstrates nicely why
>> the redhat model works.  They're a value add making money selling a
>> "free" product.
>
> Unfortunately a lot of companies think RHEL is the only linux distribution
> and hence won't even talk to you if you try to run their software on
> anything else.

Yes, this is a shame, I agree.  The world (I was going to say
"computing world" but I think it extends beyond that) owes Debian a
huge debt and it's not always or even often recognized.  It is quite
frustrating to get .tar.gz or .rpm downloads but rarely a .deb.  I(t's
also frustrating when the .rpm is for some ancient RHEL version too.
:( )

> Not really redhat's fault, other than for being successful at doing what
> they do.

This is the point that is often left out so I'm glad you made it.  Red
Hat has been successful while also being, as far as I can tell, a good
corporate and FLOSS citizen.  The sad part is that their success masks
the great work done by other groups.

Thanks
-Ben
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