On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 09:53 -0500, taharka wrote:
> OK, that's not really true. Mark is a sharp guy, and gets open source as
> well, indeed, better, than most. But he's completely wrong on his
> criticism of Red Hat (which Greg of the Fedora Project shoots down). His
> basic point? Because RHEL is a closed binary, it's proprietary.
>
> Full article at,
>
http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2007/01/ubuntu_founder....
>
> taharka
Going through my Fedora folder, I came back across this one. I have
never understood the comment. How is RHEL a "closed binary"? I'm having
a time making sense of that statement. No biggie, just curious as heck.
You can't get a copy unless you buy a support contract and agree to only
install it on the covered machine, even though all of the GPL'd content
includes a clause that says additional restrictions can't be appled to
redistribution.
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