I have to agree. Well said.
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From: 01001110 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, September 02, 1999 5:22 AM
Subject: RE: [newbie] How about this ? Red Hat GPL No Longer Available
> It all makes sense now. Red Hat made a nice and good Linux. That
made
> computer companies and programers trying to make their things work along
> with Red Hat...How many times have we seen things like "Linux is not Red
> Hat" on the net? Then they decided to start having stocks... More
business
> like movements. Its sad that a company that took a free idea is trying to
> make money out of it. It seems that people that help to evolve something
> that is free they try to make money out of it. Its not only Red Hat...its
> individual people also. For example someone came out in Korea and said
that
> the word "Linux" was copy writed by him and he wanted money from
everything
> that came in Korea or was produced there having the word Linux in it. The
> sad part of the story....he copy writed Linux after it came out...History
> repeats itself it seems.
> I wish everybody shared the same ideas I have. Contribute to
something
> without expecting money out of it. Do it for the fun of it. If I was
> capable enough as a programmer I would try to make Linux improve.....make
> Mandrake improve...but I am not...yet. I am not going to expect money.
> Open Source and Free Software is the way to go. No crap like Microsoft
> sucks...but I can't do anything about it to fix it. (Except install Linux
> that is)
> I hope that Mandrake doesn't follow Red Hat's steps. Not that I
don't
> want them to make money...I just want them to keep the same ideas they had
> in day one.
>
> I am sorry for my babbling but I had to add my opinion.
> Nick
>
> PS. Someone said it (sorry I don't remember your name) that Mandrake and
> other companies can get away by saying that its Red Hat compatible. I am
> pretty sure that they can do that.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of George Guzic
> Sent: Thursday, September 02, 1999 7:58 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [newbie] How about this ? Red Hat GPL No Longer Available
>
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>
>
> ---------- Forwarded Message ----------
> Subject: Red Hat GPL No Longer Available
> Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 15:21:27 -0400
> From: "Robb Sands" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>
> HELP!!
>
> I just got off the phone with Amazon.com and Red Hat.com Legal departments
> and guess what the hot-breaking-heart-breaking news is?
>
> You can no longer refer to Red Hat Linux GPL distribution using the words
> Red Hat. Now it has to be called "I wanna be Microsoft" or "anonymous
linux
> 6.0" or something similar, since the Red Hat name can no longer appear on
> ANY GPL PRODUCTS or ads. That's right, the GPL distribution of Red Hat
> Linux can no longer be called Red Hat Linux, it now MUST have a new name.
> No more Red Hat GPL CD's, advertisements, support groups, netnews,
> nothing...
>
> I know this sounds incredibly unbelievable, but the Red Hat GPL
distribution
> can no longer be advertised or labelled Red Hat, only the official boxed
> set. As a linux seller on Amazon.com, I (along with 100 other people)
sell
> a GPL version of the distribution formerly known as Red Hat Linux GPL. We
> now will be required to say we are selling 'blah' Linux 6.0 and will have
to
> remove any labelling on products referring to the GPL Linux Distribution.
>
> How will people know they are getting Red Hat Linux GPL if it can't carry
> the name? You guess, because I haven't a clue...
>
> Of course the legal counsel rep, and only person in the entire Red Hat
> organization who can respond, David Shumannfang, is currently on vacation
> and won't be available for a week (9-7-99). Basically we are all screwed
> and no one at Red Hat knows anything until his return, just lovely.
>
> This email is a plea for you to email [EMAIL PROTECTED] and voice your
> displeasure over Red Hat's new copyright policy requiring their GPL
> distribution to be called something other than Red Hat Linux GPL.
>
> I know this is off topic, so flame away, but it is an issue that AFFECTS
ALL
> RED HAT LINUX USERS and POTENTIAL USERS.
>
> Robb Sands
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
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