On Fri, 23 Feb 2007, Alan wrote:
Yes, but again the US cant enforce its laws against other countries.
it is not the world govt/world police, and about time they woke up smelt
the damned coffee and realised that.
The US thinks differently. Its accused for example of simply removing
people from other countries to interrogate or torture. The Microsoft v
ATT case if you bother to read it is relevant because Red Hat is based in
the USA (as are many of the contributors).
Well, there are other distros around, like I said, people are ignorant,
they dont care, they just want to play it, if something doesnt do it out
the box, they go elsewhere.
And if I get a rainy weekend maybe I'll have a read of the AT&T case, one
month.
If you move it and it is doing things not legal in the US then US people
can't contribute.
Then the US is forcing it to become an outsider by its lack of common
sense. But we all know RH wont move offshore, so RH has enshrined a
setback policy, deterring new linux converts.
Things like this dont really worry me too much, because I often remove a
lot of the packages (incl kernel) and install from source. But its a
shame things are going down this road, a few years ago nobody dare
mention, say debian in this country, now, its more prevailant then Fedora,
and you wonder why.
If I want my OS distributor to tell me how I'm going to use the programs
I'll dump all my linux (and solaris) boxes and run winblows.
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Cheers
Res
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