On Sat, Nov 18, 2006 02:38:49 AM -0900, John Andersen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> On Saturday 18 November 2006 02:21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > I will be first to admit, I have no clue as to how much work and
> > > effort is involved in creating a fork of a distro.
> >
> > Indeed, apart from being an entirely pointless exercise as the fork would
> > be just as illegal to distribute as the original, it would also never
> > happen.
>
> Really? Never?
> Go look at how many linux distros have sprung up from
> Debian recently. Why are we running xorg instead of Xfree?
>
Because XFree was developed, packaged and maintained in a way that
pissed a lot of developers and distro packagers off. That's common
knowledge, and this (the patents parts of the Novell-MS deal) an
entirely different issue. You keep confusing copyright with patents,
see my other message.
Ciao,
Marco
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