On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 11:10:25 +1100 (EST), Con Tassios wrote:
> And of course there is no */Guarantee/* that RedHat will continue to
> make SRPMs
> available to freeloaders. The GPL doesn't require them to provide
> SRPM's to people
> to whom RedHat has not given binaries.
If Red Hat stop making the SRPMS available to the those who haven't subscribed
to RHEL, all it takes is one paying customer to release them on their own FTP
servers.
Why should that customer do that? It would threaten Red Hat's business
model. That should not be in the interest of a paying enterprise
customer.
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