open question(s) to RedHat users

Chris Gehlker wrote:
> I use Red Hat, not exclusively, because I have clients who have software
> that is 'supported on Red Hat Linux.' I'm kind of curious as to where
> companies that think they can only support one distribution are going to
> go.

I was thinking about this phenomena a day or two ago. The whole
"supports RedHat and SuSe" thing is of course bogus. Well, it doesn't
mean it WON'T WORK on other distros. It just means that they haven't
bothered making it work on other distros. Consider just drivers ... any
vendor that provides Linux drivers tends to make install scripts for RH
and SuSe only ... but the same scripts can easily be modified to work
for other distros. This might be a fun task.

I get cranky when Freedom (it is what I have been wanting and only
recently was it pointed out to me that thats what it was thanks to Derek
[I have largely avoided all of the philosophy of OSS FS]) is orthogonal
to support. You get vendor lockin from a third party sometimes when it
comes to drivers. Then again sometimes its not a matter of install scripts.

Austin