On Monday 10 November 2003 20:10, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
> > The problem was that Fedora now includes an End User License Agreement.
>
> And what exactly is new here?
That now they apply the same logic to Fedora which was supposed to be the
"Free" community version.
As a long time RedHat user (after my old days as a Slackware...) I watched
carefully their moves in the last two years:
1. Releasing "Enterprise" editions (OK, so they want some money,
no problem)
2. Shorting the time for updates to non-proprietary variants (Still a
fair deal, you can stay 1-2 versions from their head or backport
yourself -- it's Free software after all)
3. Intimidating people from infringment of the RedHat trademark (still
fair, as long as it's easy to separate from the Free-software)
4. Announcing "RedHat Linux Project" and later its merging with Fedora.
The last action "looked" like a great solution to the first 3 warning steps:
- It create a clear separation between the Free-software and the RedHat
trademark
- It still give the community a viable distro (Fedora) to keep working with.
However it seems that RedHat really blew it:
- When I downloaded Fedora (I didn't have time to install it yet) I found
that "Fedora" is also a registered trademark of RedHat -- so using
it would not solve any problems we had with the new RedHat policy.
- Shachar enlightened us now, that it comes with EULA during the install
(a click through Schachar?) which may legaly bind the installer.
I still hope RedHat would somehow fix the situation by making Fedora
a "trademark free" distribution and keep the (correct IMO) separation
between the "RedHat brand" and the community project that should feed
it (Fedora). I hope that some of this is just a "flop" from the recent
merge with Fedora Project and would be fixed.
If current situation prevails, I already have debian isos ready...
(just need a scratch machine to practice migration)
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