Fedora Desktop future- RedHat moves

[Arthur Pemberton]

On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 12:01 AM, Da Rock <rock_on_the_web at comcen.com.au> wrote:
>
>  On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 13:34 +1000, Res wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 1 May 2008, Tim wrote:
>  >
>  > > Sure.  The consensus if you want to do something illegal, use something
>  > > else.  There's nothing stopping you from doing so, and there's plenty of
>  > > "something elses" for you to use.
>  >
>  > The definition of illegal is wrongly exampled here. I know its been a long
>  > time since I bothered reading fedora EULA, but I must have missed the bit
>  > that said "by use of this software you automatically submit to the non-
>  > exclusive jurisdiction of the U.S courts and its laws" if that's in there,
>  > no wonder I'm not using this crud again.
>  >
>  > A more appropriate response would have been "if you want to do something
>  > that is illegal in your country, use something else", and if unsure,
>  > consult a local lawyer, not a bunch of loonies on the net who all profess
>  > to be legal experts and think the entire world is governed by U.S law,
>  > which thankfully, it aint!
>
>  Indeed! Here, here. Trouble is their law invariably gets enforced
>  elsewhere due to treaties, alliances, imposed restrictions where charity
>  is given, and other quasi-legal means. And I don't believe they've even
>  heard of the bill of human rights, let alone understand and believe in
>  it.


Either way, Fedora is no martyr for the cause of any US global
dominance -- Fedora is just a community which puts out a Linux distro,
and happens to be based in the most lawyer friendly country of this
time period.


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