RH Decisions (was Re: APT, Yum and Red Carpet)

[Jesse Keating]

On Thursday 14 August 2003 05:37, Rik van Riel wrote:
> I snipped the fine print. Read the page yourself if you plan
> on distributing Red Hat Linux, etc...

What this doesn't really address is companies like the one I work for that 
pre-install the freely downloadable Red Hat Linux, at no charge to the 
customer.  We aren't "selling" the OS at all, and we aren't making any money 
by having the OS, yet we're still not allowed to advertize the fact that we 
pre-installed Red Hat, which a lot of customers are looking for.  I think 
that the rules should be modified slightly so that you're free to advertize 
if you aren't selling the OS, but giving it away with system sales.  We also 
ship CDs to anybody that requests them, so we're almost a non-profit in that 
regard.  It's very hard to "do the right thing" when dealing with the Red Hat 
trademark.  Hard enough to cause my bosses to look at other distros that will 
be more friendly w/ the trademark usage.

-- 
Jesse Keating RHCE MCSE
http://geek.j2solutions.net
Mondo DevTeam (www.mondorescue.org)

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