What do you think of Centos

[Mike McCarty]

Mike McCarty wrote:
> Christofer C. Bell wrote:
> 
>> On 2/22/06, Andy Green <andy at warmcat.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Identifying with RHAT and acknowledging the benefits we get from their
>>> work are Good Things, but there is nothing wrong with respins IMO,
>>> legally or morally, in fact its the whole idea.
>>
>>
>>
>> That is absolutely untrue.  The "whole idea" of the GPL and Free
>> software is to allow anyone to "add value" to what's out there. That's 
>> not what CentOS and White Box do.  They take someone else's
>> work, remove references to the people that did the work, and package
>> it up so that you can "freely" use Red Hat's efforts in creating RHEL.
> 
> 
> Yes, they are assisting in "adding value". Have you ever heard of
> the concept of the "middle man"? If I get a copy of RHEL, those

BTW, that was a *serious* question. There are people here who
do not speak English as a first language, and I'm sure I don't
know special terms like that in any of the other languages I speak.
I was not sarcastic or ironic even.

Mike
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