Why Would Fedora be Free ? Can it be Trusted?

[admin at kclinux.net]

I've heard of this also. 

Jeremy Brown wrote:

> Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote:
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>> While your explanation of the birth of GNU/Linux is excellent, the 
>> above paragraphs are a crock. As far as I know and recall, only a 
>> very small part of the software market "used to have" those four 
>> freedoms. None of the early Unix variants that I recall were either 
>> Free (capitalized to mean open-source and with those freedoms) or 
>> free (with a price of zero).
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>
> I may be incorrect on my UNIX history, but my understanding was that 
> during the early Bell labs years (especially before the explosion of 
> personal computers) UNIX source was distributed with almost no regard 
> for software licensing, and for "free" monetarily as well--or at most 
> around the cost of media.  Even after UNIX was copyrighted, relatively 
> "free" implementations like BSD and Minix still existed.
>
> Jeremy
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