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Red Hat License Challenged
An anonymous reader writes: "David McNett has noticed an apparent discrepancy between the Red Hat Linux EULA and the GPL. He has written an open letter to the FSF asking for their opinion on the matter. Does Red Hat have the right to "audit your facilities and records" to ensure compliance with their license?" McNett misreads the Red Hat documents. Their contract is for the various services, not the software, and for the services they are entitled to demand whatever concessions they think the market will bear.
ok. he misread. let's go to the next one.
first post?
Redhat is SCO is Microsoft is EVIL!!
gimme some grits.
This is the Major that he'll finally break through in!! Go Lefty!!!
Dear rotten.com, I am unsure if you are aware of the problems that your "Incident with the bird" picture has caused on the popular technology website slashdot (http://slashdot.org).
Many users of this site's messageboards are posting links to http://smoke.rotten.com/bird/ and making text based representations of a bird on a man's penis. Frankly, while I am pro-freedom, this type of photo sickens me. Could you please move the location of the bird page on your site to keep slashdot readers from seeing things that are completeley unrelated to computers and technology? I'm not asking you to remove the content, just to relocate it.
FYI the text representation of the bird is:
*p_e_n_i_s_b_i_r_d_p_e_n_i_s_b_i_r_d_*
p______...___________________________p
e____(_..__`'-.,--,__________________e
n_____'-._'-.__`\a\\_________________n
i_________'.___.'_(|_________________i
s____________7____||_________________s
b___________/___.'_|_________________b
i__________/_.-'__,J_________________i
r_________/_________\________________r
d________||___/______;_______________d
*________||__|_______|_______________*
p________`\__\_______|__/__''\_______p
e__________'._\______/.-`____{}|_____e
n___________/\_`;_.-'_________/______n
i___________\_;(((____.--'\_/________i
s_________.(((_____.-;\______________s
b____.--'`_____,;`'.'-;\_____________b
i_taco's____.'____'._.'\\____________i
r_dick_--'_________|__\_|____________r
d__________________\_\,_/____________d
*p_e_n_i_s_b_i_r_d_p_e_n_i_s_b_i_r_d_*
with a link to the offensive site (http://smoke.rotten.com/bird/) underneath, these "Penis Birds" are posted by Penis Bird Guy, Penis Bird MAN and several other users.
Regards, Andrew J. Tosh
I'm getting a bit tired of all this.
If two parties have a legal dispute it should be taken up in private between themselves - ideally limited to necessary personnel and their legal departments.
You should not use "open letters" and press releases as part of what could become a legal process.
Too much media attention after all can cause cases to be thrown out of court.
Look at SCO and their press statement "we're going to revoke IBM's license at midnight Friday...." I'm sorry, but that is pathetic behaviour and something that should be a private matter between the two companies legal representatives.
I don't know what causes concern with such petty things (other than that in this case you did have a high typo rate ;), but it seems to be overly prevalent for whatever reason. I think perhaps the best answer is to just pretend it's not there... especially when it comes to a story that answers itself and removes the point of debate (which I believe is what the site is really about... and what's with that self-answering issue anyway? Why post it?).
Opposingly, laws are the things that will restrict us most now that the Interweb(C)(R)tm has become mainstream and everybody wants in. Personally, I'd like to see control swing back to the hands of the technical elite weilding power through their command lines; Congress wouldn't. So legal issues are important. I still maintain this story was one of the stupidest I've seen on Slashdot though...
Now, everybody applaud the self-answering comment ;)
SIG: HUP
Well, you're obviously not moving anywhere.
You're acting like the religious nuts that listen to Howard Stern all day just so they can find something to complain about
just for the record, my nuts are not religious.
Next place he'll be working is Hooters with his hot man-boobs!
I think I could fitty-tuck those fin bags.
Bravo!