[P2P-F] red hat's restriction's

[Michel Bauwens]

thanks, could we call your suggestion a 'corporate commons' approach
(non-pejoratively)

On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Samuel Rose <samuel.rose at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 9:57 PM, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > http://press.redhat.com/2011/03/04/commitment-to-open/
> >
> > I would welcome any comments on this for the p2p blog,
> >
> > see:
> >
> > Recently, Jonathan Corbet, respected kernel community member and editor
> at
> > LWN, commented on our change in kernel RPM packaging. When we released
> RHEL
> > 6 approximately four months ago, we changed the release of the kernel
> > package to have all our patches pre-applied. Why did we make this change?
> To
> > speak bluntly, the competitive landscape has changed. Our competitors in
> the
> > Enterprise Linux market have changed their commercial approach from
> building
> > and competing on their own customized Linux distributions, to one where
> they
> > directly approach our customers offering to support RHEL.
> >
> > Frankly, our response is to compete. Essential knowledge that our
> customers
> > have relied on to support their RHEL environments will increasingly only
> be
> > available under subscription. The itemization of kernel patches that
> > correlate with articles in our knowledge base is no longer available to
> our
> > competitors, but rather only to our customers who have recognized the
> value
> > of RHEL and have thus indirectly funded Red Hat’s contributions to open
> > source that will advance their business now and in the future.
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> It appears to be a reaction to Oracle. Red Hat is trying to make
> Oracle work harder at "cherry picking" kernel updates to
> http://www.oracle.com/us/technologies/linux/index.html which is a
> re-packaged RHEL.
>
> Not only that, but as the press release says, companies like Oracle
> are apparently offering to support RHEL itself. So obscuring the
> reason for updates makes it harder for a company to say that they will
> support a competitor's product.
>
> As crazy as it may sound, Red Hat could do *better* to figure out a
> way to create a long term cooperation agreement with companies like
> Oracle, F5 Networks, and others who repackage RHEL. What could these
> companies share back with Red Hat that takes money/profit out of the
> picture?
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