Red Hat Recap

We have some assorted Red Hat stories which can be - and in fact already have been - jumbled together for your reading pleasure, like a sort of literary succotash. Forbes has an accusatory piece about Red Hat's licensing model, which is apparently, err, Microsoft-esque. Red Hat reminds everyone that RH9 is not going to be officially supported for much longer. Internetnews.com has a brief interview with Red Hat's CEO.

Comments

Re:Per-Seat pricing is fine....RHES != Free

[jtotheh]

The availability of the source without the binaries for an entire distro is clearly a way to get around the GPL - although you can technically share the software the reasonable way to do so is prohibited- go to gnu.org and find the 4 freedoms defined and you will see one of them is sharing the software (not just the source) RedHat does NOT allow you to install on machines if you have not purchased a license for that machine. You have to buy support for every machine you want to install it on. See this InfoWorld article or read the actual license at here (here's a quote: "If Customer wishes to increase the number of Installed System, then Customer will purchase from Red Hat additional Services for each additional Installed System. During the term of this Agreement and for one (1) year thereafter, Customer expressly grants to Red Hat the right to audit Customer's facilities and records from time to time in order to verify Customer's compliance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement")

I know RedHat contributes, but I prefer to use Debian nowadays.

Things are going from bad to worse - first the Redhat->Fedora transfer and now Sun is in bed with Mickeysoft.

Re:Red Hat's Going on

[vwjeff]

At least he managed to cover the horns on his forehead. Really, only a child calls people names. Please grow up. BTW, you forgot to mention his hooved feet. Oh, screw growing up. I'm having too much fun!!