thanks, could we call your suggestion a 'corporate commons' approach (non-pejoratively)<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Samuel Rose <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:samuel.rose@gmail.com">samuel.rose@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div><div></div><div class="h5">On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 9:57 PM, Michel Bauwens <<a href="mailto:michelsub2004@gmail.com">michelsub2004@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> <a href="http://press.redhat.com/2011/03/04/commitment-to-open/" target="_blank">http://press.redhat.com/2011/03/04/commitment-to-open/</a><br>
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> I would welcome any comments on this for the p2p blog,<br>
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> see:<br>
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> Recently, Jonathan Corbet, respected kernel community member and editor at<br>
> LWN, commented on our change in kernel RPM packaging. When we released RHEL<br>
> 6 approximately four months ago, we changed the release of the kernel<br>
> package to have all our patches pre-applied. Why did we make this change? To<br>
> speak bluntly, the competitive landscape has changed. Our competitors in the<br>
> Enterprise Linux market have changed their commercial approach from building<br>
> and competing on their own customized Linux distributions, to one where they<br>
> directly approach our customers offering to support RHEL.<br>
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> Frankly, our response is to compete. Essential knowledge that our customers<br>
> have relied on to support their RHEL environments will increasingly only be<br>
> available under subscription. The itemization of kernel patches that<br>
> correlate with articles in our knowledge base is no longer available to our<br>
> competitors, but rather only to our customers who have recognized the value<br>
> of RHEL and have thus indirectly funded Red Hat�s contributions to open<br>
> source that will advance their business now and in the future.<br>
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It appears to be a reaction to Oracle. Red Hat is trying to make<br>
Oracle work harder at "cherry picking" kernel updates to<br>
<a href="http://www.oracle.com/us/technologies/linux/index.html" target="_blank">http://www.oracle.com/us/technologies/linux/index.html</a> which is a<br>
re-packaged RHEL.<br>
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Not only that, but as the press release says, companies like Oracle<br>
are apparently offering to support RHEL itself. So obscuring the<br>
reason for updates makes it harder for a company to say that they will<br>
support a competitor's product.<br>
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As crazy as it may sound, Red Hat could do *better* to figure out a<br>
way to create a long term cooperation agreement with companies like<br>
Oracle, F5 Networks, and others who repackage RHEL. What could these<br>
companies share back with Red Hat that takes money/profit out of the<br>
picture?<br>
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