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Sat Oct 14 20:46:50 EDT 2006
and proud to have paid, and to be continuing to pay, for a subscription -
LWN is worth supporting!). Bruce Perens, interviewed at the Colorado
Linux Users and Enthusiasts (CLUE) this week, has been considering a
"community-driven answer to Red Hat's enterprise products".
"'I'm wondering if it's time for a grass-roots enterprise Linux, and
the way I figured I would do this... is first of all take Debian, why
is there a Fedora project when there's Debian, a ten-year-old project
with all its policies done...with over a thousand developers? That
is what the Fedora project should be. Take that, and get together the
community of enterprise users who depend on Linux and really want a
zero-cost enterprise distribution.
[...]
I'm thinking about whether it is time for the community... to provide
directly a Linux distro ceritified to LSB and to proprietary software
providers that are willing to do so, guaranteed to be free software
and free beer, free speech and free beer. A certified distribution
that is zero cost, free software... and I'm convinced that creating
a Linux distribution is an expense-sharing system rather than a
profit-making system, even Red Hat now admits this as they attempt
to offload production of their distribution to the community.'"
[Later on Perens decribes his scale for commercial collaborators with
the community. It ranges from benefactor, through partner, and user,
to parasite. Very sapient. (Guess who rates "parasite"?)]
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