The more I read the confuser I get.-the answer

Michael Schwendt ms-nospam-0306 at arcor.de
Fri Oct 31 06:57:10 UTC 2003


On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 11:10:25 +1100 (EST), Con Tassios wrote:

> 
> > And of course there is no */Guarantee/* that RedHat will continue to 
> > make SRPMs
> > available to freeloaders.  The GPL doesn't require them to provide 
> > SRPM's to people
> > to whom RedHat has not given binaries.
> 
> If Red Hat stop making the SRPMS available to the those who haven't subscribed 
> to RHEL, all it takes is one paying customer to release them on their own FTP 
> servers.

Why should that customer do that? It would threaten Red Hat's business
model. That should not be in the interest of a paying enterprise
customer.

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