On Sat, 1 Jul 2000, Ingo Luetkebohle wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 01, 2000 at 08:27:38AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Is there any devel co-operation with XFree, ALSA ,
> > ReiserFS and other projects?
>
> They are openly supporting gtk and gnome. On top of that, a lot of RedHat
> employees are working quite actively on a number of projects (HA comes to
> mind). Besides that labs link someone else posted, I suggest you have a look
> around http://people.redhat.com/ Lots of interesting stuff there.
>
> Not strictly cooperation but indicative of RedHats stance toward Open Source
> is the copyright on the software it develops or started developing (like the
> RPM package manager, their install tools and a number of others). It has
> been GPL from the beginning. Nowadays this does not seem a big deal, but not
> every commercial distribution did it.
>
I wouldn't overlook this licensing issue though. The original poster is
right that a lot of people are bashing Red Hat for who knows what reason
but in most cases they're simply beeing deeply unfair. Red Hat is the
ONLY major Linux distribution that releases ALL their software under a GPL
license, which among other things makes it possible for other people to
take a Red Hat CD and start building their own distribution on top (e.g.,
Mandrake, Caldera...). Perhaps the only other major distro to do this is
Debian, but depends on whether or not you consider Debian a MAJOR
distribution.
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