>> You will see its not RH I am disapointed in, or 8.0. >> I had made a suggestion for RH to include some software >> on a seperated CD from the main distro, software in my eyes >> will make the RH distro much better. >> >> The software I asked for consideration was, >> Novell NDS > > No idea if that is open source. No its not > >> JAVA > > There *is* a licensing problem with Sun Java. Red Hat is not allowed to > distribute it (unless they pay a rather high fee). So they don't > distribute it. I understand that, I wouldn't myself. > >> TOMCAT > > That is freely distributable (it's from the Apache Software Foundation), > but doesn't make much sense without Java... > Your right thats why I asked for JAVA, I would think there has to be some deal that could be worked where the license cost would be dropped. (Just it my head though :)) >> and some more wireless NIC drivers specifically prism2_cs and the >> prism2 driver which are under the MPL and by the most strict >> interpretation of the GPL, you can not distribute software that is >> NON-GPL on the same media as GPL software. >> This is why I suggested a seperate OPTIONAL CD. > > Red Hat Linux once had such a CD, it was called PowerTools. I think the > last version that came with the PowerTools CD was 7.1. I don't know why > it was dropped (maybe too expensive), but I doubt they will revert that > decision. :-( The PowerTools were quite nice... I seem to remember it, I never got to check it out. So sad. Maybe that is the exact reason, maybe no one was clear on what power tools really was. > >> The above comments that I made were in response to a post that >> I feel was un-called for by a RH employee comparing my post to a root >> canal. > > I think that was a misunderstanding. You always talked about "binary > modules". This isn't a frequently used term for "precompiled software" > (or RPMs), but sounds very much like "binary only modules". Hence Mike's > misunderstanding, I fell for it as well and ignored that thread. You > never cleared the misunderstanding until after Mike left, instead you > behaved much like those who want Red Hat to ship binary only software > like the nvidia driver. Sorry that was not the intent, nor was it the intent to have Mike leave. Maybe the should have power tools as a BUY online only thing where people would have to PAY for the software that comes on it since this seems to be part of the issue. I seem to remember the reason I never used it is because it came only w/ the professional and I was never very sure of the benefits provided to me in the PRO version. Maybe this software is just better offered completely seperate from any dist. (what I mean by that is the above, have RH sell it but not in a box) -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
