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. -- NAME : Adam Allen. EMAIL : adam@dynamicinteraction.co.uk COMMENT : ~~~~ insert your favourite signature comment here ~~~~ PGP : http://search.keyserver.net:11371/pks/lookup?op=vindex&search=adam%40dynamicinteraction.co.uk
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