Hi,
On 10/14/2010 08:16 PM, balaji sivanath wrote:
> can you be more specific - the link to show where they sell open
source
> software
>
That's the one. RHEL is Red Hat Enterprise Linux. More on that page,
and on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux
I still do not see where they are selling open source software - as far
as I can see is that all they are selling is their brand/trademark. One
can download all of their software for free and use and redistribute it
if one removes the brands - which is what centos does. Selling open
source software reminds me of the guy on marina beach who is trying to
make his first crore out of selling buckets of seawater.
one of my friend went for rhce training,they gave redhat cd to him. he
said that it can be used only for him like geniune windows,he should
not redistribute it. is that true?
Yes, that is true. The RHEL CD contains Red Hat trademarks which cannot be
redistributed by anyone except Red Hat. You can, if you wish to, remove all the
trademarks (even from the included binaries) and redistribute the CD.
cheers,
- steve
PS: I have clarified a bit about Red Hat's policies in my blog post here:
http://lonetwin.net/20090706/rants-and-randomness/tech-randomness/is-red-hat-really-an-open-source-company/
--
random spiel: http://lonetwin.net/
what i'm stumbling into: http://lonetwin.stumbleupon.com/
_______________________________________________
ILUGC Mailing List:
http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
