Re: Another Fedora decision

[Keith Keller <kkeller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2015-02-09, Always Learning <centos@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2015-02-09 at 11:12 -0800, John R Pierce wrote:
>
>> On 2/9/2015 11:06 AM, Always Learning wrote:
>> > The third item was a 16.1 MB PDF of 1,344 pages. A quick scan of the PDF
>> > shows every page appears to be readable.  11 pages devoted to BASH.
>> > Information on other interesting topics too.
>> 
>> on a site hosted in Russia which appears to be FULL of copyright violations.
>
> Probably not really a software pirate but an individual (and a keen
> cyclist) storing some old-ish PDFs on his own web site.

The PDF *itself* is still pirated.  It has nothing whatsoever to do with
"software" piracy.

> So there is little to fear from the web site of a Russian cyclist who
> likes Linux.

I don't even fully trust docs written by any third party until I can
cross-check it against official documentation.  So I definitely do not
think it's okay to trust pirated documentation from a Russian site I
will never be able to know anything about.

--keith


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