[NTLUG:Discuss] Red Hat 9.0 End of Life 04/30/2004

[Chris Cox]

Greg Edwards wrote:
> Chris Cox wrote:
> 
>>
>> RH has publically stated that their goal is to
>> follow after the Star Office model.. Fedora is
>> the "community" working toward making a good product
>> that RH than can then (with much guidance on the
>> fedora development direction) use for their
>> commercial deliverable.
>>
>> I wonder what would happen if the fedora "community"
>> strays too far from their RH "guidance"??
>>
> 
> So RH (Sun as well) the company makes money while the software 
> developers do all the work and don't get paid for anything?
> 
> Ok, sounds good to me.
> 

Well.. that's pretty much true about perl, apache, php, linux, GNU, etc..
What we're seeing is the increase in visibility of viable
business plans around free software (maybe).