Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > On Saturday 11 Jul 2009 10:52:37 am jtd wrote: > >>> 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. >> > > I care. In fact I am totally sick of this redhat bashing. You guys seem to > forget or are ignorant of the fact that red hat does not merely package > stuff. > It is the biggest contributor to the linux kernel and maintains several GNU > tool chains. It pays M Tieman who runs the OSI and Venky who is spearheading > the movement for open standards in India. They are good guys. And note that > FSF, Harald Welte et al have not sued them. Looking at the people who are > pontificating about them I find people who even traffic in doze prominent. I > suggest we close this thread and sentence anyone who bashes redhat to hard > labour - like writing a few lines of foss code. > No one is bashing RedHat. We are just trying to get a clear simple answer to a plain and simple question. Everyone is right in their own way but the final results do not tally. However from all this IMHO, RHEL CDs cannot be copied and/or installed on machines other than the ones for which RedHat has been paid.
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