Andre Cameron wrote:
True dat.
Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote:
At 13:43 9/26/2003, you wrote:
Anyone ever tried to make their own distro before? Was it worth the effort or is it better to just migrate with the herd?
I like (c): support a vendor who is trying to move Linux forward and who invests in improving the technologies, and quit wanting to get everything deliverd for free.
Its not about wanting everything for free, if RH tomorrow said no more free downloads ya had to buy a copy for the current $30.00 I would be fine with that. I'm bent because they are dropping an entire product (of which I have three PAID copies) with no care about the end users. I run RH on my notebook, my desktop, and I just wasted a month and a half convinceing brass to switch from windows to RedHat on 90% of our servers.
I went to RedHat because I was sick of paying through the nose for crap from Microsoft, or using hacked copies that always fudged up. So here was a cool OS with full source and it only cost me $30 (I bought it cause I liked having the books and stickers :) )
Andre
But apperently the GPL licence that most software is under, does not
allow RH to restrict the number of machines you can install the software on, if I understand correctly. But if RH were to put some kind of
licence that required a key to enable a central part of the distribution
to work, they should be able to control how the software is installed.
Just because the software is GPL it doesn't mean your distribution has to allow it to be installed by the package manager, without a licence.
Back with RHL 6.2 Proffesional RH Secure Server required a licence and
although you could get the source, it required an RSA library to build.
That library was not free or distributable. The binaries needed to be
upgraded with rhmask which IIRC was some kind of Binary Patch thing that
required the original package to be installed {requiring the licence}
before and update could be performed.I can't see why this type of approach could not be used, but then I am not a lawer and don't wish to know how to be one.
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