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 >