Re: Corporate pressure

[Alan Cox <alan redhat com>]

On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 02:03:19PM +0100, david paeme wrote:
> software vendors will probably like this, because they can the user to
> accept their license, and not having people install the software without
> doing that. 

netscape did that for years, the installed binary required you register
and agree to the license to use it.

> also,the corporate weight of redhat -- or even some high-profile people
> like ESR or AC -- could help persuade the companies.

On reason for recognizing in the original Fedora proposal that there
would be many other repositories was that there would be people releasing
all kinds of add on stuff under all kinds of licenses, and that developers
have very different relations to such things than say enterprise customers