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Ubuntu Response from RedHat CEO

Posted by tuxchick on · 1 comment
Chris Pirillo
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The summary of points is this: He has a lot of issues with Ubuntu regarding integrity. He says they are similar to Fedora but make too many compromises...they “propagate the viewpoint that Open Source both violates intellectual property rights and is nothing more than a community of piracy.”

[The article does not cite anything resembling a real source--TC]

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Siince comments are not allowed on the original site http://chris.pirillo.com/2008/01/24/ubuntu-response-from-red...

I am posting a small correction here.

Ryan - January 24, 2008 @ 2:11 am said: Red Hat obviously developed the "Red Hat Package Manager," aka RPM, which is the worthless piece of dependency hell of a package manager that ever existed.

The TRUTH: Caldera was originally a Red Hat distributor, and financed some Red Hat development, such as the RPM install module, but parted ways over quality issues. http://www.aaxnet.com/news/B000722.html

Ryan - January 24, 2008 @ 2:11 am said: Microsoft? Don't get me started. After all, Microsoft did in fact develop XENIX, which is in fact, a distribution of UNIX. So let me get lay this out for you. Microsoft developed a distribution of UNIX, then sold the rights to SCO, however acquiring 25% of the SCO corporation. SCO turns around and sues Novell for copyright infringement of UNIX copyrights.

The TRUTH: Xenix was a version of the Unix operating system, licensed by Microsoft from AT&T in the late 1970s. The Santa Cruz Operation (SCO) later acquired exclusive rights to the software, and eventually began distributing it as SCO UNIX. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenix

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