On Sun, 2006-06-11 at 19:59 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-06-11 at 12:18 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> > On Sat, 2006-06-10 at 20:58, Lamar Owen wrote:
> > > >We publish all code and scripts we use for such stuff - and if users
> > > >want to, they have access to this - to use and deploy within the GPL
> > > >framework. What we do expect is that users who make this effort
> > > >contribute back to the community rather than just sponging ( is there
> > > >such a word ? ) off it.
> > >
> > > Karanbir, the word is 'freeloading.'
> >
> > But you have to admit that there would be something amusingly
> > ironic about the Centos project opposing distribution rebuilds...
> >
>
> I have no problem with rebuilds if they are open source and they don't
> claim to be CentOS.
>
> You surely don't see PNAELV telling us how to create a distro ... or the
> people at debian helping the ubuntu guys ... or gentoo guys helping
> VLOS.
>
> > Not offering to help is understandable though.
>
> That is the point ... why would we help create a competing distro?
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I think John's spirit and information was exactly what he was doing -
helping others create competing distributions based upon RHEL.
Why would you want to do that? I don't know, and I suppose that by
reading the above, it seems clear that you aren't inclined to do so.
Craig
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