-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Star Liu wrote: > I read a article about the IP issues among Microsoft, SCO, Novel Suse > and the other Linux world yestorday. I felt quite angry about what > Microsoft has done to Linux in order to keep its market in software. > so i hope i can get more information about this. > 1. If Novel Suse is so obviously not friendly to free software world, > why so many people still use it? does it mean people who use Suse do > not have the spirit of free software? > 2. I also know that Enterprise Edition of Red hat is not a free > distribution, so does it mean Red hat do not have the spirit of free > software? RHEL is teetering on the edge of non-free'd'ness.
It's not beer free, and BITS of it are not speech-free, but you're paying for the support contract. RHEL is very open about a) CentOS being a beer free RHEL without the support contract (and with a bigger package set to boot) b) Fedora being a totally speech-and-beer-free distribution that feeds RHEL and Cent, and that the money from RHEL directly sponsors Fedora. Red Hat _DO_ have a clear dedication to the FOSS movement, and are, in my mind at about the same level as myself getting paid to support/implement Debian systems. > 3. Shall Debian follow the way of Red hat to have a nonfree enterprise > edition? > 4. Do Debian has the danger of IP lawsuits "created" by microsoft? > > Knowing what you'd read to lead you to these conclusions would be handy. Regards Rich Healey - -- Rich Healey - iTReign \ .''`. / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Developer / Systems Admin \ : :' : / [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: richohealey33 \ `. `' / [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ `- / [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkjTSI0ACgkQLeTfO4yBSAfoRQCfaczFj/fOVxGPUDEpBIguiF1k pGQAoLSGKHixerulJFrSCXecIXBGjdGM =Ko/7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]