On Wed, 2008-06-18 at 17:16 -0700, Antonio Olivares wrote: > Red Hat does not charge for the software, they charge for the services > that they provide. At least that is what I have been told many many > times. So now Firefox is not free anymore :(, is that what you are > saying. Opera is Free/but not opensource correct. So Firefox is > opensource but not free? Who said Firefox isn't opensource?? I dealt with GSA for years. For the government to use anything, it has to be fitted into it's category like a square peg in a square hole in order to be utilized. Period. So, that bit of verbiage merely qualifies it for use by any Federal program, according to the dictates of GSA. They can't even use Charmin in the bathrooms if it's isn't on a GSA list. That's all. If they didn't meet some "spec" the entire Federal Government would be stuck with I.E. That's all there is to it. No need to set off the klaxons and worry needlessly. We spent as much money meeting USDA, OSHA, FDA. lawyers and GSA guidelines than the product raw material costs. Some boiler plate is just part of dealing with GovCo. Ric -- ---------------------------------------------------- My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar https://oar.dev.java.net/ Verizon Cell # 336-254-1339 ----------------------------------------------------- -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
