On Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 06:39:55AM -0400, Gerald Timothy Quimpo wrote: > On Sun, 2002-10-13 at 06:26, Paolo Falcone wrote: > > AFAIK if you'll sell them you can't claim technical support services > > with copies of RH CDs. > > in older versions (6.2, 7.x), one or more of the CDs contained > proprietary "bundled" programs or demos. that last CD was usually > not legal to distribute or copy and give away since the software > there was owned by other parties. i don't use redhat anymore, so i > don't know if that's still true. i think it's likely. with mandrake, > and i think SuSe, at one point they shipped win4lin, maybe even > vmware demos on the proprietary CD.
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