Legality of Fedora in production environment

Simo Sorce ssorce at redhat.com
Mon May 14 15:47:43 UTC 2007


On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 18:32 +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> Hi Vladimir Makarov!
> 
>  On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 10:42:01AM -0400, Vladimir Makarov wrote next:
> 
> > Here is the typical example.
> > http://pcnews.ru/news/linux-microsoft-open-170187.html
> Please, DO NOT READ that.
> 
> It's very famoust 1st April joke.
> 
> But issue in other words in the corruption.
> I mean the Microsoft's software (due to its fee > 0) can be used for money
> back (also called "reverts").
> 
> I try to explain this.
> Person A and company C agree to buy some software for company B. Note: A is
> a official workers on C. The B write bill with higher price (about 30%).
> After C pay to software approx 130% of price the part of that price A and
> people from B share between each other. Understandable?
> 
> The OSS model is not acceptable for this financial tricks.

Oh it is, you can bill for services you never give, it is the same
thing.
You don't need to exchange physical goods to be able to issue false
bills with the intent of committing fraud against the tax department or
your own company.

Simo.





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