On Sunday 12 July 2009, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
On Saturday 11 Jul 2009 10:52:37 am jtd wrote:
Yes, so you don't get to pay for only one subscription and use it to keep an entire datacentre up to date. If Red Hat allows that, they will surely go bankrupt in a matter of weeks. This is probably what jtd means by violation of spirit.
Who cares if RH (or any other commercial entity) sank like a stone to the bottom of the sea.
I care. In fact I am totally sick of this redhat bashing.
Note my "any other commercial entity". Some one or the other is always affected and there is no pure black or white. Any commercial entity will dissappear and 10 others will come in as replacement. So when i say who cares it is specific the the statement "how will RH make money". They should not be in business if they dont know howto within the framework of FLOSS.
You guys seem to forget or are ignorant of the fact that red hat does not merely package stuff. It is the biggest contributor to the linux kernel and maintains several GNU tool chains. It pays M Tieman who runs the OSI and Venky who is spearheading the movement for open standards in India. They are good guys. And note that FSF, Harald Welte et al have not sued them.
Absolutely. Therfore one can install to a hundred machines witout a problem. So why the weasel words in the licence?. Same reason that Trolltech has about "commercial". sort of mislead people into believing that they cannot use the software commercially. In this case that I am barred by copyright / trademark laws from installing on another machine. There is no such restriction.
Looking at the people who are pontificating about them I find people who even traffic in doze prominent. I suggest we close this thread and sentence anyone who bashes redhat to hard labour - like writing a few lines of foss code.
Meeting govt officials to straigten out standards etc ;-E.
-- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate NRC-FOSS http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/