Whitebox Linux
Travis Riddle
triddle at apfc.com
Tue Jan 20 19:17:15 UTC 2004
Hey man don't sugar coat it, tell us how you really feel :)
Travis
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-list-admin at redhat.com
> [mailto:fedora-list-admin at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Rodolfo J. Paiz
> Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 11:29 AM
> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> 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.
>
>
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> Rodolfo J. Paiz
> rpaiz at simpaticus.com
> http://www.simpaticus.com
>
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