[Fwd: Re: Legality of Fedora in production environment]

[Dmitry Butskoy]

nodata wrote:
> Am Dienstag, den 15.05.2007, 17:35 +0400 schrieb Dmitry Butskoy:
>> Certainly, it is (still) not wide-spread, but I hear about such a threat 
>> at each RHEL-related seminar now. A user ask "what about if I just 
>> download from Internet", the "official" answer is "it is dangerous, 
>> because your computers can be confiscated etc...", and "if you don't 
>> want such troubles, buy (our) box with some license paper..."
>>
>>     
>
> Did you experience this yourself first hand,

Fortunately, still no.

>  or hear it off someone at a conference? 

Yes. It has begun recently. On each conference, more "off everyone" 
rather than "off someone".

> Did they experience it first hand?
>   

They know the actual cases. I am inclined to trust them.

Besides that, I know about some cases from independent sources (off 
non-software people).

It is enough to start worry.


~buc