Eric S. Raymond wrote:
If you think MP3, Flash, and Java are the missing "killer apps" to make Fedora Core the desktop for world domination, why don't you take Fedora Core, and those bits (getting licenses as needed), and release your own "Raymond Linux" distribution? Since everything in Fedora Core is fully redistributable, you are free to do that.I don't have the money or the lawyers to pull it off. This sort of thing is why we have commercial partners with office buidings.
If you look a bit further in that direction you'll see you're asking RHAT shareholders to take risks you aren't willing to take yourself.
This stuff is Free software, "we" don't have "commercial partners" as if it was proprietary and owned by "us" and it is a strategic decision for some big boss to make. Unless the license forbids it companies are welcome the same as individuals to use and copy around the code. Thereby nobody, no matter who, is able to stand beside a big switch that decides if "commercial partners" are to be allowed today or not. Only the individuals choosing their project license can control it.
-Andy
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