Re: [Sheflug] Pink Tie Linux 8.0

[nospam [at] xxxxxxxxx (Keith W. Sheffield)]

>>>>> "David" == David Holden <dh [at] iucr.org> writes:

> On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 21:26, Alex Hudson wrote:
>> On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 20:14, Mr. Adam ALLEN wrote:
>> > What changes have RedHat made which takes away Open Source status.
>> 
>> RedHat is less than Free Software because when you receive it, you can't
>> just copy it if you like - it is a trademark issue, but it prevents
>> people sharing the software.
>> 

After reading the following page, it doesn't seem that way to me.

http://www.redhat.com/about/corporate/trademark/page9.html

It seems the sticky point has to do with service & support.  They don't
want someone selling a CD set at a cost significantly higher than material
cost and misleading people into believing the extra cost is for a support
contract from Red Hat.

> I have to say though that redhat do seem to be doing a lot these days
> things that make them unpopular at the moment..

It's what happens when you get lawyers involved in this stuff.

> By the way is it true that SUSE don't allow you to download ISOs for
> their distribution and isn't this a little more annoying, at least I can
> (for the moment) do this with redhat?

I wouldn't doubt that someone has a script or something that would download
all the SuSE rpms and generate iso's, similar to the iso building stuff
from Debian.  

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