What spinoff do you mean? Did I miss something?

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/co?s=RHT+Competitors

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_Linux

I suppose you could argue that Oracle comes behind Microsoft and
Novell on the list of Red Hat competitors (I wonder how Red Hat looks
at it?), but I do not think that changes my reasoning nor my
conclusions.

If you think the end result will be to make it _easier_ to obtain a
free clone of RHEL, then once again, I think you are out of your mind.
Yes, I am accusing Red Hat
(http://community.redhat.com/centos-faq/#_motivations) of lying... Or,
more precisely, of being highly selective with the truth.

Also again, I could be wrong. Time will tell.

 - Pat


On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 10:12 AM, Andrew Z <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Patrick,
> Why do you think oracle's spinoff is their major competition?
>
> On Jan 14, 2014 12:47 PM, "Patrick J. LoPresti" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> RedHat is a company. Companies exist for the sole purpose of making
>> money. Every action by any company -- literally every single action,
>> ever -- is motivated by that goal.
>>
>> The question you should be asking is: How does Red Hat believe this
>> move is going to make them money?
>>
>> Those were statements of fact. What follows is merely my opinion.
>>
>> Right now, anybody can easily get for free the same thing Red Hat
>> sells, and their #1 competitor is taking their products, augmenting
>> them, and reselling them. If you think Red Hat perceives this as being
>> in their financial interest, I think you are out of your mind.
>>
>> SRPMs will go away and be replaced by an ever-moving git tree. Red Hat
>> will make it as hard as legally possible to rebuild their commercial
>> releases. The primary target of this move is Oracle, but Scientific
>> Linux will be collateral damage.
>>
>> I consider all of this pretty obvious, but perhaps I am wrong. I hope I
>> am.
>>
>>  - Pat