[Menai-LUG] RedHat announcement

[TJ]

Redhat make money from their support contracts
with companies, but the free version which they 
maintained was a serious drain.

Not only did rh patch security holes (and such) 
in their latest releases but they also backported
them to olsder releases, you see how much of
a resource drain that is.

If you think fedora may end up inferior in some
way I dissagree, look at other non comercial
distros like debian. Also dont under estimate
the skills and support a community run rh will
keep/get.

As to free, costs, Linux maybe free to obtain, it was
never free for buisnesses to maintain. Either they
have to employ in house staff or buy support 
contracts with another co. like rh, or a combination
of both. 
As to free, freedom, remember unlike with MS a co. is 
not locked to any distro and can always relatively
painlessly switch to another provider and keep their
existing apps.

I wish rh the best of luck in a successful linux 
buisness.