Quoting "Vivek J. Patankar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Vivek J. Patankar wrote: > > Dinesh Joshi wrote: > >> 2. Use Debian / Gentoo. They're really amazing and are good as server > >> OSes. Someone already suggested Cent OS. Cent OS is same as RHEL except > >> the proprietary stuff. > > > > Eh? Proprietary? > > > > Centos = RHEL minus RedHat trademarks. > > Now that I think about it. Trademarks are proprietary items too. Sorry > for the noise.
trademarks have nothing to do with software - the question of open vs closed does not arise. As far as I know, even the name linux is trademarked somewhere or the other. So calling a trademark 'proprietary' is meaningless. -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

