Not to pick on Scott here, but what does this have to do with Firewalls? Surely there is a Linux/Windows pissing contest mailing list somewhere that this would be better suited in... :-)
Wes Noonan, MCSE/MCT/CCNA/CCDA/NNCSS Senior QA Rep. BMC Software, Inc. (713) 918-2412 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bmc.com -----Original Message----- From: Scott Fraser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 20:21 To: 'Michael Cobb'; Joe Matuscak; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: FW: FW: Win2kAdvance Server one word: licencing (and yes, i am canadian, so i can spell it that way) ask a lawyer the same question and i am sure that you could get a more thorough answer basically, it is not legal for linus to sell linux because it is distributed under the GPL .. so your question is not as rhetorical as you might think .. and if you want to develop the kernel, by all means, dive in .. the source code is publicly available this following statement is simply not true: > ONE man owns the > right to the kernel and ONE man and his very few associates > develop said kernel before you post something which will most probably create a lot of useless responses, please do a wee bit of research -- i suggest starting at www.gnu.org thanks, -s. _______________________________________________ Firewalls mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnac.net/mailman/listinfo/firewalls
