Quoting Shachar Shemesh, from the post of Tue, 24 Feb: > > elsewhere, that RedHat have crossed the line between "making money from > selling free sofware and services" to "trying to deprive you of rights > you should, by right, have". I think the point where that crossing can > be plainly seen is where they ask you to agree to an End User License > Agreement when installing Fedora and RedHat AS that says that you accept > their interpretation of Trade Mark law. To me, this means that they know > that what they are asking you to do is contrary to what they are allowed > to ask you, but want to limit you anyways. As far as I'm concerned, if I > wanted that, I would have gone with proprietary software.
Well, you are echoing my thoughts: "cross out RH from the list of the good-guys" understated. but this is the commercial world and my clients demand it. according to what I have read here today I feel it's entirely legal to copy and use the RHAS on as many stations as I want (the GPL protects that right) but those machines won't have support, RHN accounts nor indeed have binary RPMs for easy updates. I would gladly install this for a customer explaining to him that for automatic upgrades and patches he will need to pay between $300 and $2500 per machine, depending on theplan and distro he chooses. I think it's fair. I will also recommend he looks at SuSE or Debian as alternatives (one cheaper but tested for Oracle, the other one cheaper yet but with a learning and porting curve depending on the situation). this sucks, but if this analysis is making sense to you all, it means using the Fedora project may be a questionable step as well. Your thoughts, as always, are most welcome... -- Twice the man I used to be Ira Abramov http://ira.abramov.org/email/ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
