What do you think of Centos

[John Summerfied]

Christofer C. Bell wrote:
>

> 
> I really really nate "me too" posts, but this is something I very
> strongly agree with.  My sense of ethics prevents me from using or
> recommending any rip-off of RHEL.

in that case, why aren't you using Windows? I don't know to what extent 
RH actively welcomes the cloning projects, but I do know the Ubuntyu 
projects do. There was a recent case where screenshots of a Ubuntu 
derivitive that looked a lot like Ubuntu, and the Ubuntu reaction was 
"We fouled up. We really should make it easier to rebrand."

There's little moral difference between using Fedora, which takes 
upstream source without paying for it, adds value in packaging and 
(limited) support and passes it on, and using one of the RHEL clones 
where the project takes upstream source without paying for it (in this 
case RH SRPMs), adds value in packaging and (limited) support and passes 
it on.

The process is the same in both cases, and in both cases the upstream 
suppliers give the source away for free.

Note that a lot of RHEL is covered by licences that do _not_ require the 
release of source: Red Hat gives everyone the source to it all.

Note that RH does not have to give everyone the source to anything, the 
GPL only requires the source where binaries are supplied, and RH would 
fully meet its obligation by shipping media (CD or DVD) containing both 
and by shipping online source updates only to those with a current RHEL 
licence.

RH protects its product by use of trademarks: I cannot build from source 
and claim _my_ product is RHEL. Read RH's trademark guidelines for more 
detail and more accuracy.



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