Re: gEDA-user: More footprint stuff

[sdb@xxxxxxxxxx (Stuart Brorson)]

> > Anyway, when a company wants to run a copy of RHEL, they are likely to
> > also want the support & quality assurance that comes with the real
> > McCoy; they are accordingly willing to pay.  And the advantage of
> > GPL'ed software in this case is the openness, transparency, and
> > (usually) stability of Linux.  Also, with Linux there is no vendor
> > lock-in and mandatory upgrade treadmill.  Those qualitites are also
> > worth paying for, if you are a serious company.
> 
> That pretty much sums up RH's business model ;-)

Indeed.   And I think it's a good model, too.  On one hand, you don't
screw your customers for profit (like M$ does), and on the other hand,
you have enough revenue that you can fund and support continued
development of Linux. [1]

What I don't understand is why somebody would spend all the time and
effort to strip out RH logos from RHEL just to distribute it into a
marketplace where there are already thousands of free Linuces
already.  Somebody with that much time and energy would be better
utilized for improving gEDA and other F/OSS EDA apps!

Stuart

[1]  If only there was an equivalent model for EDA applications.