Re: [WBEL-users] Plans for RHEL 5

Purcocks, Graham spake the following on 11/30/2006 1:56 AM:
> That's not what Jamey of Beau said, he said John had downloaded it. However, it does concern me that John doesn't say anything on this list, to stop all this supposition and guessing. Just a simple 'I'm very busy' would at least mean we know he's still there.
> 
> Graham 
John has stated many times that he never intended Whitebox to be a public 
distribution. He only created it to save his employer money. As quoted from 
the front page;


"Why was White Box Linux created?

White Box Linux's initial creation has been sponsored by the Beauregard Parish 
Public Library in DeRidder, LA USA out of self interest. We have several 
servers and over fifty workstations running Red Hat Linux and were left high 
and dry by their recent shift in business plan. Our choices were a difficult 
migration to another distribution or paying RedHat an annual fee greater than 
the amortized value of our hardware. So we chose a third path, made possible 
by the power of Open Source.... White Box Linux. "

So no one should expect more than was offered.


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