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.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Rodolfo J. Paiz
> rpaiz at simpaticus.com
> http://www.simpaticus.com
> 
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