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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