Let's all remeber that Red Hat is a company, which has one thing to own: Trademarks. They want to make money, and I can understand that.
What they seem to be doing, is to restrict the use of their trademarks, so if I want my server to answer "Red Hat Linux", I have to pay for that luxury. If I'm ready to run a completely identical system, that answers "Pink Tie Mushmush", noone can stop me from that.
It will be easy to convince all those who read this, that "Pink Tie Mushmush" is exactly the same, but in an average software company, it's easier to spend a few hunded dollars.
It seems to me, that the only way to fight this (if we want to), is to come up with an agreed codename. If "Pink Tie Mushmush" somehow becomes a well-known synonyme for "Red Had Linux", then the problem is solved. Everyone change their distro to this name, the servers answer "Pink Tie", and everyone understands what it is. If we want to make installation CDs, we paint a pink tie on them, fix these two files, and noone can say a word.
But let's ask ourselves: Do we really care if Red Hat will make profits from companies who care about the name of the system? After all, Red Hat (or was it Pink Tie) might use some of this money to support Good Things (TM).
And we all remember that Linux (TM) is a trademark too...?
Eli
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