On Friday 10 July 2009, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote: > On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 9:11 PM, Rony<[email protected]> wrote: > > jtd wrote: > >> You cannot install from the original cd on machines not subscribed to RH > >> service. THAT is a clear violation of spirit. > > > > This is the opposite of what is mentioned in the last point of your > > earlier mail. Could you clarify? If copying the original CD is illegal > > and the above point prevents installation on other machines then the > > final verdict is that RHEL can be used only by those who buy it from > > Yes. You cannot redistribute RHEL as is. You cannot share it with > friends -- that is what Fedora is for. If you want to do that then you > may gift them the subscription as well. That or take the pain to > remove the trademarks. > > > RedHat and only on those machines that have been paid for. > > Yes, so you don't get to pay for only one subscription and use it to > keep an entire datacentre up to date. If Red Hat allows that, they > will surely go bankrupt in a matter of weeks. This is probably what > jtd means by violation of spirit.
Who cares if RH (or any other commercial entity) sank like a stone to the bottom of the sea. The business world is littered with the corpse of yesteryear's most valued companies. I was just reading this > > > -- > Siddhesh Poyarekar > http://siddhesh.in -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
