Re: Publicly funded software development (was: KDE v. Gnome)

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From: Jason Clifford
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 00:00

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On 27 Oct 1998, Christopher Browne wrote:

> >What is in this alleged RedHat proprietary core?
> 
> Their newfangled hard drive partitioning scheme, whose name escapes me,
> is not "source available," and is not found anywhere other than on boot
> disks... 

You should tak a look under /misc/src/ on your Red Hat CD. The source for
the installation routines is there.

The ONLY parts of a distribuion of Red Hat that are not open source are
the commerical extras (BRU and the Real server/client) that are included.

Jason Clifford
Definite Linux Systems
http://definite.ukpost.com/

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From: Jason Clifford <jason@domgen.com>
Subject: Re: Publicly funded software development (was: KDE v. Gnome)
Date: 1998/10/27
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