Re: FSF : lackeys of their corporate masters

[David Kastrup]

Stefaan A Eeckels <tengo@DELETEMEecc.lu> writes:

> On Thu, 06 May 2004 19:24:01 -0500
> John Hasler <john@dhh.gt.org> wrote:
> 
> > Stefaan A Eeckels writes:
> > > Is it unreasonable to suspect Professional Workstation's license
> > > prohibits CheapBytes from copying it?
> > 
> > The license does not prohibit copying.  However, if you sell copies
> > commercially you must remove the Red Hat trademarks.  This is not
> > especially hard to do.
> 
> In other words, RedHat does not produce only reproducible stuff,
> and simply freeloading of the work of RedHat by selling exact
> copies of their distribution is not possible.

Because otherwise they would lose their right to defend their
trademark according to U.S. law.  So they came up with this Fedora
thing.  And since this does not involve their trademark, you can again
freeload the work of RedHat by selling exact copies of their
distribution.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum