Redhat Has Great 4th Quarter!

[hitest]

I saw this great story at Yahoo business news. RHEL is making inroads into the corporate market place.

Very cool!

Red Hat Profits in 4th Quarter Beat Estimates

[Carnevil]

Well good, maybe they can help fund OpenSSH, considering they make money off of it. http://www.thejemreport.com/mambo/content/view/239/1/

[iccaros]

Red Hat, Gives both code, bug fixes and addition to the OpenSSH project., the problem is

1. the BSD license says you don't have to .

2. Theo pisses everyone off.. see DARPA and OpenBSD's way to screw up funding http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopic...1,80473,00.html

while he has the right to say what you think, if you what money and support you have to play the game or stop bitiching when you get none.

3. Red Hat Does not Sell OpenSSH, its one of over hundreds of packages in the software.

you Don't see Apache crying.. the Python project or Linus.

its part of the license that programers must accept when they put there efforts into something.

but seeing as Red Hat gives both code, does its own support and gives its upgrades back to the project, they are doing lots more than say , SUN or SCO.

I give money to the project by buying a cd when new releases come out.. I also submit bug reports,

this is as much as they should expect, there license does not even require to give code back

[Carnevil]

Red Hat, Gives both code, bug fixes and addition to the OpenSSH project., the problem is

1. the BSD license says you don't have to .

2. Theo pisses everyone off.. see DARPA and OpenBSD's way to screw up funding http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopic...1,80473,00.html

while he has the right to say what you think, if you what money and support you have to play the game or stop bitiching when you get none.

3. Red Hat Does not Sell OpenSSH, its one of over hundreds of packages in the software.

you Don't see Apache crying.. the Python project or Linus.

its part of the license that programers must accept when they put there efforts into something.

but seeing as Red Hat gives both code, does its own support and gives its upgrades back to the project, they are doing lots more than say , SUN or SCO.

I give money to the project by buying a cd when new releases come out.. I also submit bug reports,

this is as much as they should expect, there license does not even require to give code back

This has nothing to do with the BSD license, they don't want contributed code, they want money. So switching to a GPL won't do that for them. Theo maybe an a**hole, but that doesn't mean OpenSSH should suffer. Red Hat doesn't sell OpenSSH, but they still use it and there's no real alternative. So if OpenSSH goes down they'll most likely be screwed. Red Hat may contribute code, but where's that code going to go if OpenSSH stops developing. A few grand isn't going to hurt Red Hat or any of the other companies. But we all know why they aren't funding OpenSSH, it's because linux and OpenBSD are competitors. They'd rather screw themselves than spend any money.

[jcl]

Red Hat doesn't sell OpenSSH, but they still use it and there's no real alternative. So if OpenSSH goes down they'll most likely be screwed. Red Hat may contribute code, but where's that code going to go if OpenSSH stops developing.

Nothing is going to happen to OpenSSH. Worst case it's forked.

Edited March 30, 2006 by jcl