On Tuesday 27 January 2004 12:46, Bryan Murdock wrote: > This is going to sound really silly, but am I just buying a license to > the RedHat trademarks on the RHEL CDs? Is it a license to only install > it on one machine? The reason I ask is I'm still not clear on their > policy, or what substantial thing I am trading my money for. I'm still > not clear on whether I'm allowed to install RHEL on every machine I own, > or even my friends machines as long as I don't "redistribute" the CDs > with the trademarks on them.
No, you are also purchasing a support contract (that's the biggest one), and also buying hardware/software certification at their release points. For joe user, that's no big deal. For a large company, that's really important. -- -- Jayce^
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