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Red Hat & Centos On Name Usage
Mister Incognito writes "As you probably know, Centos is a free distribution compiled from sources of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. As requested, the distro has any references to Red Hat removed. But now Red Hat has decided that Centos must not even mention their name on the web site, or link to Red Hat, or even use metatags with its name on it. " Well, actually, what RHAT has asked for is that Centos comply with the their terms for using the name; Matthew Szulik has talked about this before, and should be noted that not all of the copyright stuff is "bad."
Dogs scrapping over a piece of meat is what it looks like. RH and the 'first tier' Linux vendors want to differentiate themselves from fat goofy weird trekkie Linux (fgwtL) vendors which want to differentiate themselves from 'fake/newbie' Linux vendors like Linspire and so on. In the meantime SCO wants to litigate with everyone and maybe just maybe RH has either swung or thinks it can swing a deal with SCO which would require them to divorce themselves from fgwtL and all the others, except EyeBeeEm.
It's really start to look ridiculously fragmented out there in Penguin/Devil land isn't it? The last time I checked there were 250 listings on Distrowatch. Isn't it time for some massive consolidation or least an acknowledgement that there are commerically viable distros, academically viable distros, home/desktop/soho distros and everything else distros? At least let the propective customer or user peruse the selections based on that simple taxonomy. Otherwise this insanely complex Cambrian Epoch ecology chockfull of geeks and freaks most of whom are destined for evolutionary dead ends is just sucking up valuable time and resources.
The word is "hypocritical". And yes, it sure is.
Now before I get modded down, I be to remind whoever might read this that what I am saying is FACT. - bogaboga
Fuck you.
I am a paying Red Hat customer. I am also a CentOS user (at home) and have contributed to the CentOS project. You are now pissing on your own customers.
I am going to do everything in my power to get CentOS validated now as a computing platform for my employer, one of the top 5 largest pharma companies in the world, and work to migrade all new Linux servers to CentOS.
You screw me, I screw you back.
Maybe they need to change their name to Red Shat so people can start referring to them by "R$"