Fedora - time to blink

Antonio Olivares olivares14031 at yahoo.com
Sat Nov 26 19:51:31 UTC 2011


> >> I've always had the suspicion that the real
> reason
> >> redhat won't distribute the original tools is the
> >> incredibly abrasive personality of the author
> >> (on display in this bugzilla and his web site
> :-).
> >>
> > Here we go again! :)  Red Hat won't distribute
> the original, Fedora is NOT Red Hat, but Red Hat does
> control Fedora ***blink*** and thus is what we get.  
> > 
> > It also makes me think which EGO is bigger(his or Red
> Hat)?  :)
> 
> One person makes a incorrect statement and another piles up
> on it and no
> good can come out of that.  The problem is a legal
> one.   Red Hat has
> the legal liability over code that Fedora distributes and
> we rely on
> lawyers from Red Hat and FSF to verify that we can
> distribute code under
> the free and open source licenses.   It has
> nothing to do with ego of anyone
> 
> -- 

I am not questioning legality or licensing issues here.  I was just wondering how EGOS get in the way of free sofware and Free and Open Source Software!  We already know about those things in the forbidden items list :)  

Regards,



Antonio 


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