On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Ward William E DLDN wrote: [SNIP]
You seem to have two major points: 1) RHN ISO downloads add no additional charge to RHN subscribers which makes it a non-profit distribution. The fact that access to the ISOs via RHN required a payment should not count as commerical since it is an add-on instead of the main purpose. 2) RHN charges for the bandwidth, not the content and should be considered a common carrier (similar to UUnet being a common carrier and not a redistributor of GNU/Linux when the packets flow across it). This also seem to be another flavor of if the main purpose of the charge is something other than content then it is not commerical since it is a no charge add-on. I don't think even Red Hat would try to back you on either of those points. Red Hat clearly markets Instant ISO downloads and the updates themselves (the content) as being part of the service. It does not appear from the way they are marketing RHN that they are trying to claim common-carrier status. But feel free to contact FSF about if they would be accepting of either cause for compliance with GPL 3c. > I think they went a bit beyond what they were required to do (and > continue to do so), while you are indicating you think they are hewing > to the exact letter... that's the only real arguement I think we have > here. :) Yes. > Oh, one last addendum, before I send this: To all the folks who > got it off BitTorrent, how about going BACK to BitTorrent and letting > OTHER folks who couldn't finish get it? I'd like to install this > weekend (two machines now, one more in a month), but a 1-2K/sec > (over a Cablemodem) I might as well wait for the mirrors to kick in > on Tuesday.... 'cuz BitTorrent won't be done until th 13th at this > rate. Ok. I put mine back up but if your having problems because no one is leaving their BTs up then there shold be an increase in the number of BT packets being pulled from the original source. If you check the MRTG graphs for the originating tracker/downloader point, you will see that the traffic is down at 0.30 Gb/s (and the link is capable of 1.38 Gb/s). Based on the graphs, I think you have some other problem causing the download to be slow. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
