sherlock@vsnl.com wrote:
Trade marks are marks which identify certain qualities and attributes of the product in a very easy and recognisable way. It's called branding. Companies spend plenty of money to make the link between the trade mark and these qualities and attributes. If someone copies the product with these Trade marks that someone is misleading the public into believing that those qualities and attributes are still in the product. In this case (RH believes) the quality is in the service and manuals. Remove these and substitute it with an ignorant windoze certified zombie cd in hand and you have a disaster in the making.And the manual costs money to create. You are most welcome to read the manpages and make your own manual. Of course that would be hard work and to me it seems that work is a FOUR letter word to you.
Could you clarify two questions, plain and simple?
1. Can a multi-cd pack of a paid linux distro be cd-copied and installed into self or others' computers?
2. Are the multi-cd copies of paid distros like SuSe Pro and Mandrake 10.1 Official, available with vendors for copy and courier charges, legally stripped off their logos and copyrighted software?
Regards,
Rony.