Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote: > On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 12:23 AM, Rony<[email protected]> wrote: > >> The newbie simply wants to know if he/she can duplicate an original RHEL >> CD and use it for free of cost installations. >> > > Why is it necessary to dumb things down so much? Is this explanation > not simple enough: > > "Yes, you can copy it for your own backup. You cannot give it to > friends or install it on more computers than your own. It's useless > anyway, since you or your friend won't get any updates for it. Here, > take this Fedora/CentOS/Ubuntu CD/DVD instead." >
The above statement has a flaw. Updates or not, you cannot install it on another system. Anyway, why would a newbie own a paid RHEL CD. I recollect now that the RHEL CD that was given to us for free for the course was a stripped version with less server packages and no paid services. Maybe those CDs are meant to be distributed. We even got extra CDs with the source code. -- Regards, Rony. GNU/Linux ! No Viruses No Spyware Only Freedom. -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
