> My point was that to be ethical, only paid subscribers should be > downloading the isos period, from whatever source. Anyway.
I flat-out disagree. Subscribers get access to RedHat's network and support. The world gets access to the code! What's next - not sharing your CD with you buds at the UUG until they show up at Comp U.S.A? RedHat has a problem; It went into business selling a product that is open source and free. They didn't write 1/100th of the code that they are distributing. Whatever types of fees they want to charge their customers, is their business. I think it's great they make a distribution of the various packages (it happens to be my favorite distro - for now), but it doesn't concern me if someone downloads software with an open license from a source other than the distributor. It's that ability to do so that has made so many of the open source projects as great as they are. Without the freedom to do this RedHat wouldn't have the great apps to put together for the great distro that RedHat is. Now, before some of you get exercised about "supporting the companies" and so on.. I do believe in supporting them - all of them. I would be much more likely to send some money or submit a patch to fix a bug to the folks that maintain the code for PostgreSQL (or OO.org, GIMP, GNOME .... than the company that the rolls it into the RPMs; that would be support. Thanks for letting me rant. Gabe ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
