Re: Nomination question: Redhat
On Mon, Dec 14, 1998 at 01:52:09AM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> > So - what do the nominees think about Redhat?
>
> They are our colleagues. Their goals are different then ours: RH is
> a commercial company so their primary goals is making money. But they
> also show loyalty to FS-principles: they stopped distributing CDE,
> all software they produce is FS and they invest money in FS-projects
> like GNOME.
But at the same time many people are saying they're moving away from the
GPL for libraries as much as they can. They like the GPL for apps, but
not for libs.
> > How can we work better with them?
>
> Of course. We are already working together in the LSB, which will make sure
> that all Linux software should on all participating Linux distributions.
> There are other areas in which we might work together, but we will always
> have to be very carefull not to loose sight of our high technical standards.
> (please do not take this wrong: I'm not saying that RH is a technologically
> a bad product).
They aren't bad, but they don't have things like libc5 compatibility for
example.
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