Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 30th Jul 2009 16:44 UTC
The CentOS project, the Linux distribution aimed at the enterprise built from Red Hat's freely available source code, has hit a significant bump in the road: the project's main administrator, Lance Davis, has gone missing-in-action. This is kind of a problem as Davis is the sole administrator fo the CentOS.org domain, the IRC channels - and the CentOS funds.
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Member since:2006-01-26
Or the company that built the car and millions of other could be worth billions of $ and still fold and be shuttered leaving you with a modern car with no dedicated support.
Precisely why Open Source (Free or not) is better than proprietary closed source.
In the end, at least you have the ability to fix it yourself, or hire someone else to fix it.
With proprietary closed source, you are basically...dead in the water.
Member since:2006-08-15
That's bull. Just because an OS is free and opensource doesn't mean I have (or almost any other entity) the tools, and experience to fix it. That's like saying that because I own and operate a television, then I can fix one when it fails. NOT! Unless you have the resources of a small army or a large IT dev staff, you're out of luck if your free and opensource OS has problems. Waiting for the "community" to fix your problem is not an option when time is money and you run a business.
If I buy an OS or a car and the maker goes out of business, there are still options. There are always 2nd and 3rd parties who will continue to provide support. That's why free opensource OSs will never be adopted by mainstream businesses.
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2005-08-12
Or the company that built the car and millions of other could be worth billions of $ and still fold and be shuttered leaving you with a modern car with no dedicated support.
You would be forced to get support elsewhere, or if you're lucky the other companies would pick up the slack and provide maintainance to you for some reasonable amoutn of time.
You're right, that would never happen in a paid product! Heaven forbid a billion dollar corporation like car companies..I mean what's the likelihood of someone like General Motors going bankrupt and shuttering a whole division like Saturn, leaving owner in the lurch...nah would never happen...