On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 1:54 PM, sankarshan<[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 1:50 PM, Venkatesh Hariharan<[email protected]> wrote: > >> I once met a senior government officer who was blasting Red Hat saying >> that the software does not work. It turns out that the hardware vendor >> simply got some amateurs to make copies of Red Hat and install it. The >> result was that his application would crash if 20 people logged into >> it. Who gets the blame? Yes, you guessed right, Red Hat! This despite >> the fact that Red Hat was not even involved in the implementation. >> This is a perfect example of why it is so critically important to >> protect the trademark. > > Umm... wasn't that a classic example of why their needs to be a more > technically competent partner system ? ;)
Well, to simplify things, I deliberately left out one fact. That the hardware vendor actually took money from the client for Red Hat subscriptions but the money never reached Red Hat. So this was a matter of greed, plain and simple. Venky -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
