On Friday 10 July 2009, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 9:11 PM, Ronygnulinuxist@gmail.com wrote:
jtd wrote:
You cannot install from the original cd on machines not subscribed to RH service. THAT is a clear violation of spirit.
This is the opposite of what is mentioned in the last point of your earlier mail. Could you clarify? If copying the original CD is illegal and the above point prevents installation on other machines then the final verdict is that RHEL can be used only by those who buy it from
Yes. You cannot redistribute RHEL as is. You cannot share it with friends -- that is what Fedora is for. If you want to do that then you may gift them the subscription as well. That or take the pain to remove the trademarks.
RedHat and only on those machines that have been paid for.
Yes, so you don't get to pay for only one subscription and use it to keep an entire datacentre up to date. If Red Hat allows that, they will surely go bankrupt in a matter of weeks. This is probably what jtd means by violation of spirit.
Who cares if RH (or any other commercial entity) sank like a stone to the bottom of the sea. The business world is littered with the corpse of yesteryear's most valued companies. I was just reading this
-- Siddhesh Poyarekar http://siddhesh.in