Re: [SLUG] Red Hat slagging

[Danny Yee <danny@nospam.anatomy.usyd.edu.au>]

Andrew Macks wrote:
> Funds..  Tricky word.  How do you put money back into Linux?  There's no
> fair way to do it.  There will never be a fair way to do it.  Simply
> because of the nature of Linux.
> 
> SuSE on the other hand give development of projects in return.  SuSE is
> heavily involved with XFree, Alsa and ReiserFS projects.  I think this
> goes a LONG way further than Redhat's throwing money around at people who
> don't really care about money or can not use it to benefit their projects.
 
How is SuSE's funding of these projects any better than (say) Redhat's
paying Alan Cox or funding GNOME development or any of the other projects
they support?

And SuSE is just as into big money alliances and deals with other large
corporations as Redhat or Caldera are.  The only major distribution that
really has a claim to be ethically/economically/politically distinct is
Debian (for reasons that should be obvious...)

Danny.

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