Red Hat exec says Oracle is not an open source company

[Chan Chung Hang Christopher]

David Gerard wrote:
> On 27 May 2010 15:05, Chan Chung Hang Christopher
> <christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk> wrote:
>> David Gerard wrote:
>>> On 27 May 2010 14:05, Gilles Gravier <ggravier at fsfe.org> wrote:
> 
>>>> Red Hat says "Sun sometimes held back "the good stuff" from the open
>>>> source community in developing MySQL"... Hum...
>>>> So Red Hat isn't doing that with Red Hat Enterprise Linux vs Fedora?
> 
>>> Nope. Unless you consider trademarked logos are all that.
> 
>> You have no idea how much withholding trademarks is impeding free
>> software. I don't care how much testing Redhat puts into testing their
>> RHEL releases, how much they ensure that the whole stack works together,
>> or even how they make the source rpms available to anybody and not just
>> their customers/subscribers, withholding those trademarks is holding
>> back good stuff. Period.
> 
> 
> How? In what way are the logo graphics good stuff? Please show your
> working, rather than mere assertion.

Before I make this more messy, I was being sarcastic...why list a bunch 
of good stuff and dismiss them just because Redhat is trying to protect 
its trademarks?

It's all those freeloaders that modify Redhat Linux and then push their 
whatever product with their corrupted Redhat Linux that branded Redhat 
as evil. Similarly the Centos channel gets frustrated with people 
popping in and asking for help for their 'Centos' installation when it 
is in fact plesk or some other messed up system based on Centos but the 
Centos guys get labeled as whatever due to their refusal to help them 
with problems that are not Centos related.


> 
> In industry practice, the difference between using CentOS and Red Hat
> is whether you're running Oracle or other third-party proprietary
> software that demands a "supported" system.
> 

Aye, aye. Or whether you have someone to blame. :P