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Re: [Sheflug] Pink Tie Linux 8.0



On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 20:02, Richard Ibbotson wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Not wishing to cause a distro war or to upset anyone but the news came 
> to me from the Linux Emporium this morning that after some questions 
> had been raised at the Linux Expo at Olympia earlier this year no 
> answer had come back from RedHat about licencing issues.
> 
> >From John Winters..
> 
> "I've given up waiting for Red Hat to respond to the issues I raised
>  with them at the Olympia show.  We're therefore now offering:
> 
>      Pink Tie Linux 8.0
> 
> on cheap CDs.  Pink Tie Linux is produced by CheapBytes in the USA
>  and they've kindly provided us with masters to make it available
>  over here. It's based on Red Hat with the minimum changes necessary
>  to bring it back to full Open Source status."
> 
> For those of you who aren't aware of it RedHat have decided that Linux 
> is not about Free software or Open Source software.   They seem to 
> think that Linux is something else.  I suppose I'll be flamed for 
> mentioning this :)

What changes have RedHat made which takes away Open Source status.

I'd only understood that Pink Tie was called such because of Trademark
issues.


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