Joe Brockmeier: “If your business depends on open source software, you at least have the option of going to a company like Progeny Linux Systems to buy additional support. With proprietary software, ‘end of life’ really does mean end of life. Open source means being able to do it yourself, which is a much more attractive option for organizations that do not wish to be subject to arbitrary cut-off dates that exist only because a vendor wishes to force another round of upgrades to boost the bottom line.”
So does paying for support from Progeny make Component Linux any more proprietary? No it does not.
From back in June …
http://ianmurdock.com/archives/000225.html
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If your a Redhat’s Enterprise distribution customer, you remain free to select other vendors and other products, and still [take] the Redhat source and, in the words of Fleetwood Mac, “Go your own way”. There is no proprietary lock in.
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http://www.centos.org/