Red Hat Exchange Is Dead

Posted by timothy on Friday February 5, 2010 @06:20PM from the milk-for-free dept.

darthcamaro writes "In 2007, Red Hat launched the Red Hat Exchange (RHX) — an appstore, if you will, of open source partner applications sold from a Red Hat website. Sounds like a good idea, right? While an appstore works well for Apple, turns out that an appstore for open source (from a Linux vendor) isn't such a good idea. 'When we came out with RHX we were hoping for more ambitious adoption but we've learned that selling third-party applications via a marketplace is challenging,' Mike Evans, Red Hat's vice president of corporate development said. 'When you've got marketplaces that offer buyers the choice of buying in the marketplace or directly from the vendor themselves, which is what our marketplace was, there isn't a real efficient marketplace.'"

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Re:Yes, currently running in 2D... by jgrahn · 2010-02-06 00:59 · Score: 0, Offtopic

"I had to rip out all the ATI drives I'm getting from rpmfusion" So you were not only using a test OS but you even merged it with third party providers and you still are surprised because things breaks. [etc]
And also, *his* problem that he's buying hardware with no free driver support, rewarding hardware vendors who try to make life hard for their users.
(Apart from that, I don't see "running in 2D" as a big enough problem to make me cash out $$$ for Windows 7. Isn't it simpler and cheaper to buy a non-broken graphics card?)