Hey man don't sugar coat it, tell us how you really feel :) Travis > -----Original Message----- > From: fedora-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:fedora-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Rodolfo J. Paiz > Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 11:29 AM > To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: RE: Whitebox Linux > > > At 10:58 1/20/2004, you wrote: > > > I'm not saying it _will_ be done, I'm just saying it > _could_ be done. > > > Just because a program is GPL doesn't mean it has to be > free of cost. > > > >The problem is that that limitation of the Service Agreement > might be of > >bad faith in light of the spirit of the license of the > software they're > >redistributing. > > Bullshit. > > Red Hat already provides SRPMS for the entire RHEL codebase > (if not, there > are only tiny exceptions, otherwise WBEL et al. could not > exist). They do, > however, want to provide paid-for support and paid-for errata > updates to > make a living. Since there are a bunch of people out there > who will go to > great lengths to avoid paying for something (regardless of > that something's > fair value or how much it costs the other to produce it), Red > Hat writes > their service agreement in such a way as to make life a little more > difficult for those people. > > As far as I'm concerned, "bad faith" is some jackass insisting that a > commercial company dedicate millions of dollars to write > better software, > and then not satisfied with the fact that said commercial company > distributes their sources publicly and gratis, insists that > they provide > their finished product for $0.00 or be branded "the next > Microsoft" because > "the outside world is slavery" (your quote). > > You don't like Red Hat? Please, by all means, go use someone else's > product. You have that choice, especially since all that > software /is/ GPL. > But quit spouting neo-Marxist propaganda at the rest of us. > Those who agree > with you already agree with you... those who don't, won't. > > Un... freaking... believable. > > > -- > Rodolfo J. Paiz > rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.simpaticus.com > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
