[Gllug] An article for you from an Economist.com reader.

[Ben Fitzgerald]

On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 01:07:34PM +0100, Amias Channer wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 12:07:50 +0100
> Tethys <tet at createservices.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Amias Channer writes:
> > 
> > >> This seems to me to be a contradiction in terms. If your source is
> > >> freely available and modifiable, then where's your monopoly? (You
> > >> might have *most of the market*, but you have no monopoly lock.)
> > >
> > >So you don't use redhat in a production enviroment then ?
> > 
> > Yes, I do. Like Nix says, though, where's the monopoly lock?
> 
> I belive if you want to use oracle on redhat you are locked to certain
> distro versions and possibly even kernel version , also if you want to
> deploy perl applications on a production system you can only use the
> modules that they have rpm'ed or risk having to fight rpm with cpan
> and make your system hard to audit or re-create.

Another option is to build your own rpm from the perl module which 
maintains the integrity of your rpm install base.

Cheers,

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Ben Fitzgerald
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