What do you think of Centos

[Christofer C. Bell]

On 3/6/06, grumman Fan <grumfan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2/22/06, Christofer C. Bell <christofer.c.bell at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 2/22/06, Rex Dieter <rdieter at math.unl.edu> wrote:
> > > Christofer C. Bell wrote:
> > > > On 2/22/06, Andy Green <andy at warmcat.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > 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.
> > >
> > > You do understand that they're *required* by Red Hat to remove those
> > > "references to the people that did the work", right?
> >
> > Yeah, buddy, I am.  I'm not an idiot, I just think what they're doing
> > is morally wrong.  Capiche?
>
> The what RedHat is doing is equally morally wrong, since they took
> "someone else's" Linux code and made a commercial product out of it.
> Capiche?
>
> (And, yes, you are an idiot if you think what Centos is doing is
> morally wrong and RedHat isn't.)

Well, I think you're an idiot for resurrecting a long dead thread that
you didn't entirely read to then flame someone about an issue that's
been resolved.  So, piss off, Mr. Fan! :-D

--
Chris

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