[Fwd: Wikipidia - Goodbye Red Hat and Fedora]

[Rahul Sundaram]

Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-10-13 at 17:42 -0300, Horst H. von Brand wrote:
>> Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 at freenet.de> wrote:
>>> On Sun, 2008-10-12 at 16:48 -0300, Horst H. von Brand wrote:
>>>> Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 at freenet.de> wrote:
>>>>> I am glad they are around, but not more and not less.
>>>> It is around becase RHEL is popular, and open source.
>>> And non-free
>> It /is/ free... you pay for support only.
> Wrong. RHEL is opensource, but it is not free. You can't get RHEL
> binaries anywhere.

You are confusing non-free and commercial. They are not the same. 
Non-free is a well established term for proprietary software. FSF, 
Debian and even RPMFusion is using that term as such.

RHEL is commercial but not, non-free. The complete source in the form of 
SRPMs is available in the Red Hat public ftp server. The free 
availability of binaries is never a requirement for any of the free and 
open source licenses.

Rahul