On 09:09 28 Jan 2002, ABrady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | I subscribe to an online news thingy. Today there was an announcement | that Redhat is going to launch a Linux Advanced Server at Linuxworld. | There was one line that I didn't quite understand and was hoping someone | had more information on exactly what is being talked about: | | "Red Hat is also taking steps to halt piracy of its software, which is | nevertheless based on the free Linux OS." | | Piracy of what? What kinds of steps?
More like piracy of its distro - there have been a few cases recently of superficially "RedHat" packaged CDs etc which didn't come from RedHat, and had incomplete or modified contents. This isn't to say you can't download it for free and give it to all your friends, or even modify it and distribute that (though you couldn't call it "RedHat Linux" then). It's just having things out there passed off as "RedHat" which aren't both damages their image and creates support nightmares. -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ Support Darwinian evolution -- Squash a weakling today. - David Wren-Hardin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
