Hi,
Well the market chose. It seems people that matter (which influence
purchases) care more about FOSS ethics than marketing people think. At
this point squandering all the goodwill accrued by taking a firm FOSS
stand would be something very stupid for Red Hat to do.
I think that is a good position to take. It's a different position to
take than saying "we can't ship this for legal reasons".
People write about Red Hat being the next Microsoft (or other such
stupid things). The truth is the software Fedora delivers is as
ethically pure as Debian's,
In some cases even more - Debian is still shipping GPL'd mp3 decoding
code as part of the main distribution; see a recent discussion on
debian-legal.
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