[LINK] extreem patheticism

[Dassa]

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|> Ex Machina
|> Sent: Friday, June 10, 2005 8:28 AM
|> To: Danny Yee
|> Cc: Link
|> Subject: [LINK] extreem patheticism
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|> the reason red hat network is not gpl is that red hat would 
|> go broke overnight if red hat network where gpl. red hat 
|> network is the only bit thaat red hat actually charge for. 
|> you dont pay you have no right to use it. anyone could buy a 
|> single red hat network licence modify one line and 
|> redistribute in competition to red hat it at fractions of 
|> the price that red hat does. 

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I'm not sure you understand how the Redhat EL works.  I haven't paid for any
Redhat software license as such.  The license fee I pay each year on the two
RHEL systems I run is for the maintenance of the systems, the notifications
there are software updates available and the ability to download and install
them easily.  Redhat hasn't charged me for any software aside from the media I
required to initially install the OS.  In effect I'm only paying for value
added services, not the OS or any combination of GPL'd or commercial software.

It isn't a matter of getting some code and altering it and then being able to
distribute it at a lower cost, the additional services Redhat provides are the
key and it would be a non-trival effort required to duplicate those.

Darryl (Dassa) Lynch