Is Fedora *really* Free?

Scott van Looy scott at ethosuk.org.uk
Thu Oct 19 17:04:10 UTC 2006


Today Les Mikesell did spake thusly:

> On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 17:40 +0100, Scott van Looy wrote:
>
>>> But there was a long, involved flamefest here not that long ago, so no need
>>> to rehash it again (please?).
>>
>> OK, sorry. I'm new here. I just wanted to know how the interwebnet works
>
> Heh - just keep in mind that it connects a lot of people with a lot
> of different ideas and the reason it works at all has very much to
> do with the BSD license on the initial TCP/IP code.  The world would
> be very different today if that code had restrictions that made it
> less attractive to use in commercial equipment.

...and I'd never have had to mess with 
c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts... ;)

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