[plug] Red Hat

[Bret Busby]

On Sat, 20 Sep 2003, Matt Kemner wrote:

> 
> On Sat, 20 Sep 2003, quoth Jon  Miller:
> 
> > Can some correct me but I heard that Red Hat isn't free anymore and that
> > the only way to get it is to purchase it.
> 
> You can still download it for free, you just can't redistribute[0] it.
> 
> > Can someone point me in the right direction? (no not Debian....yet).
> 
> If you want a Free (as in beer AND speech) distribution, Debian is the way.
> 
>  - Matt
> [0] or at least you can't call it "RedHat" due to trademark restrictions.
> 
> _______________________________________________
> 
> 

Does that mean that anyone who has a set of RH 9 CD's, can not now copy 
them and give copies to people?

If so, that appears to be strange, and seems to cross the line from Open 
Source to Microsoft Licensing.

-- 
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
..............

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 you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
  Chapter 28 of 
  "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
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  published by Pan Books, 1992 
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