Fedora Desktop future- RedHat moves

Francis Earl lunitik at gmail.com
Sat Apr 26 21:33:21 UTC 2008


Yes, sun-java6 via packages.debian.org returns it in the 'non-free'
branch.

On Sat, 2008-04-26 at 15:29 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> Alan Cox wrote:
> > 
> >> If Redhat's legal staff spent half the time finding ways to make things doable instead of playing the "just say no" game, most of these problems we speak of would become administrivia instead of broken systems.
> > 
> > In my experience (and I work with these people) they spend their time
> > trying to find ways to make things doable, but sometimes the US legal
> > system has its head so far up its backside it can suck its teeth.
> > 
> > The people who can change that are not a few lawyers - it takes -the
> > people- to do so.
> 
> Did someone say Debian redistributes the Sun JVM?  If so, I think that's 
> the real surprise here.  I always considered them to be the most 
> conservation of the distributions and the least likely to include 
> anything that isn't strictly open source.
> 
> -- 
>    Les Mikesell
>     lesmikesel at gmail.com
> 




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