[Fwd: Fedora Foundation]

[Chasecreek Systemhouse]

[bcc'ed another IT instructor]
On 4/7/06, Jay Turner <jkt at redhat.com> wrote:
> A little confusion here.  RHEL is indeed open source and you can indeed
> download and use it in any way you would wish for free and without
> signing a support contract.  The hitch is that you'll need to download
> the source packages and recompile the distro.  With respect to the SLA,
> it actually reads that if you have one licensed RHEL installation then
> all of your RHEL installations need to be licensed.  This is really the
> only way for Red Hat to prevent someone from paying for support on a
> single system then deploying tens/hundreds/thousands and using the
> single support entitlement to receive support for the whole bunch.

Understood and thank you for the further explanation  :)
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