In Germany for this case we also had a ruling. It is not legal to sell such CDs. The people (here DELL) would have to provide you with another - everywhere working - Version of Windows 2000.
Some companies offered after this ruling a programme with which you can extract Windows 2000 from this limited Version of it. Perhaps you also can use these tools somehow on other CDs of that company........
Mike
yes, that's true.
These problems I heared of mostly in Eastern European Countries (regarding the Debian development - a company who uses Debian had to pay taxes afaik).
But that's - I think - not the rule. You also can give someone your house (co-signed by a senior solicitor) you don't have to pay taxes as long as you don't die within the next X years... But that's law (:
Generally in Europe (esp. in Germany - it could be different somewhere else also if I do not think so) you do not have to pay taxes for products (or money) you use/get for free. Just as an information...;)
I think it's a great idea. I mean for sure you can get some shell accounts for free somewhere in Eastern Europe but to learn this is/would be a really great chance.
I just don't know, if it will survive. There is much criminal energy out there and just wits to get a chance like that.
Also the users obviously take advantage (in a bad way) of it and play with it. (e.g. cat/dev/urandom ->.bash_profile...)
So I really hope and wish that the project will succeed. Probably through some kind of automatic reinstallation all 10 minutes:p - don't know.
Slashdot Mirror
very true.
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the root servers aren't updated that often, are they? So there is no way to support them and speed that up
But overall a IMHO great and funny project
In Germany for this case we also had a ruling. It is not legal to sell such CDs. The people (here DELL) would have to provide you with another - everywhere working - Version of Windows 2000. ........
Some companies offered after this ruling a programme with which you can extract Windows 2000 from this limited Version of it. Perhaps you also can use these tools somehow on other CDs of that company
Mike
hia,
... But that's law (:
... ;)
yes, that's true.
These problems I heared of mostly in Eastern European Countries (regarding the Debian development - a company who uses Debian had to pay taxes afaik).
But that's - I think - not the rule. You also can give someone your house (co-signed by a senior solicitor) you don't have to pay taxes as long as you don't die within the next X years
Generally in Europe (esp. in Germany - it could be different somewhere else also if I do not think so) you do not have to pay taxes for products (or money) you use/get for free. Just as an information
Mike
hi,
;)
just to give you the URL of this offer:
http://www.testdrive.compaq.com/
(so this is not off-topic here a special *BSD-URL: http://www.testdrive.compaq.com/os/#bsd
have fun,
Mi"nothing to do with CompaQ"ke
hi,
/dev/urandom -> .bash_profile ...)
:p - don't know.
I think it's a great idea. I mean for sure you can get some shell accounts for free somewhere in Eastern Europe but to learn this is/would be a really great chance.
I just don't know, if it will survive. There is much criminal energy out there and just wits to get a chance like that.
Also the users obviously take advantage (in a bad way) of it and play with it. (e.g. cat
So I really hope and wish that the project will succeed. Probably through some kind of automatic reinstallation all 10 minutes
I wish you the best,
Mike