Ubuntu founder doesn't "get" enterprise Linux

Matthew Saltzman mjs at ces.clemson.edu
Thu Feb 1 22:29:08 UTC 2007


On Thu, 1 Feb 2007, Denis Leroy wrote:

> Matthew Saltzman wrote:
>> Red Hat
>> branding (graphics, etc.) cannot be used except in conjunction with 
>> official RH products.  In this sense, RHEL is a "closed binary".
>
> And therefore so is Ubuntu.

Don't take my remarks out of context.

But if you insist, then yes, the portions of Ubuntu that cannot be 
modified and redistributed are "closed".

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 		Matthew Saltzman

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