ESR: Goodbye Fedora

[Scott van Looy]

Today Alan did spake thusly:

>>> Its called "US law".
>>
>> The U.S law does not apply to any other country ( contrary to what the U.S
>> likes to think ;) )
>
> Fedora is US based and therefore subject to US law. Furthermore the
> question of whether a US organisation shipping bits abroad which are then
> used abroad in a manner breaching US patent is currently before the
> supreme court (Microsoft v AT&T).
>
> In addition a US citizen providing the URL of the livna repository is
> committing an offence (The 2600 magazine case)
>
>> And if thats such a problem, like I said, why do none of the other distros
>> base in hte US stop providing...
>>
>>> to cause trouble. Many of the other distributions aren't worth sueing
>>> because they have no money anyway. Others seem to be hoping that
>>
>> I dont believe that for a second. A large distro base like Slackware and
>> Debian offer them, and there name is as well known as RH's.
>
> Slackware and Debian together aren't worth the cost of bringing the
> lawsuit. Their total real world assets are worth peanuts.

...and Ubuntu is registered in the Isle of Man and not a US company and so 
can sort of get away with it

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