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"Gregory Toomey" <nospam@bigpond.com> wrote in message
news:1461459.XJWvGJHOOx@gregs-web-hosting-and-pickle-farming...
> It was a dark and stormy night, and Jacob Heider managed to scribble:
>
> > On Wed, 05 Nov 2003 15:05:21 +1000, Gregory Toomey wrote:
> >
> >> It was a dark and stormy night, and Keith Clark managed to scribble:
> >>
> >>> http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-5101690.html
> >>>
> >>> He says home users should stick to Windows because home users can't
> >>> figure out how to hook up a USB camera.
> >>>
> >>> That does it. I'm going to SuSE. RedHat can rot.
> >>
> >> They seem to forget that the nerds use Linux at home, college, AS WELL
AS
> >> in the enterprise. Reh Hat is forcing users to buy support with their
> >> latest offering, & breaking the GPL. So the nerds that made Red Hat
what
> >
> > I what sense are they "breaking the GPL"? The GPL was designed to
product
> > their right to make money by selling software licensed under it (in
> > addition to other things).
> >
>
> The new Redhat licensing forces to pay for support if you use the product.
If you use the software & dont pay, you are in breach of the Redhat Licence.
> This is in breach of the GPL, which always allows derivative works to be
distributed for free.

No. The binaries you must pay for - the source code is free.
Pay no attention to this poopoo - he knows little of linux and less of the
free world.

> (You can pay of course, but there must always be a free version).
>
> In addition, it allows Redhat to conduct audits.
>
>
> >> it is are now leaving in droves (forget fedora).
> >>
> >
> > Any particular reason? Redhat + community support, should be at least as
> > good as any other community supported linux, since it's starting from
the
> > redhat codebase.
>
> I think that there are better development models out there - Mandrake,
Debian +Debian Derivatives.
>


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