Chris Travers wrote: > RedHat Enterprise IS redistributable, and there are third party distros > based on it. However there is one major gotcha: > > The contract for the enterprise services for RHEL state that every copy of > RedHat Enterprise Linux in an organization MUST be signed up for the > enterprise services if any one copy is. This means that an organization > does lose the install flexibility that open source normally gives, though > they still can run Fedora on other systems where they do not need these > services. > > >From RedHat's perspective, this avoids a shell game of support "This server > gets the services this week but this other server got the support last week. > So we only need one subscription." Again, RHEL's licenses are not > "licenses" but rather service contracts.
Thanks. It seems perfectly reasonable for Red Hat to place any restrictions they want on organizations that also want to purchase support. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match
