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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.
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Boooo Redhat! Go FreeBSD. I'll be switching a server over to a *BSD today!
Oh goodness, it's time to switch to another distribution. RedHat is getting to big and mighty, an bullying the Linux community (at least RH users). At least with RH, users can just switch to another distribution like Debian or Slackware. Never liked RPMs much anyway, less problems if I compile from source. :-)
Looks like someone has been taking notes from M$....
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How do I use my mod points on the story? -1 Redundant...
Look people... You just love to complain about how the /. editors aren't doing their jobs, or how Slashdot is "News to Noone. Stuff that falters." By the way, that's "no one" and what the hell people? Why do you come here everyday to get your news and complain about it? I think the slashdot editors do a DAMNED good job, and I personally think that if you're going to come here everyday, especially those of us without subscriptions, that we should at least morally support our fellow geeks, who strive to provide us with excellent geeky news.
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On that subject, geeks everywhere need to stop complaining... Hello? If all the geeks would stop complaining about each other (ex. MS geeks complaining about "those open source fools" and EVERYONE stopped complaining about MS and actually did something about it) and got together, for the greater good of open source development, or development in general we could do so many more things. Stick together... geeks shouldn't fight amongst each other... that's what "they" want... whoever they might be...
I'm finished, just remember,
-vaderhelmet
Yeah, it sounds like someone is trying to start shit by trying to "dob" redhat in. What are the FSF going to do? "Oh.. we thought you were our friend? boohoo".
Some people need to get over that Redhat is a _business, they have share holders to please_. Yes, they are a linux distribution but they are out to make money and nothing else.
Redhat is not a fucking charity!
Notice how it is all Open Source Software that caused all the problems? It really is a parasite.
I still can't believe some people take this site seriously.
/. looking for intelligent commentary (current post excepted of course ;) ), grammar, or good advice. Use it simply as a news aggregator and read the stories they link to. Usually the next day as a result of the /. affect.
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That is not their job.
So you're the guy who pays their salaries? Maybe you should fire them.