[olug] Red Hat bulletin

David Walker linux_user at grax.com
Fri Jul 18 23:23:04 UTC 2003


I agree that the principle is reasonable.  Has anyone looked at what it takes 
to remove the Red Hat logos?  If they are too heavily integrated I would hope 
that Red Hat would make changes to make them easier to remove as I would 
complain that heavily integrated art is GPLed.

Think they would be bothered by someone creating Husker Helmet Linux?  (Think 
about it) (or is there lawyer on the UNL side that would come after me?)


On Friday 18 July 2003 07:16 am, Craig Wolf wrote:
> That is a reasonable look at it.  Thanx for the opnion...
>
> Craig Wolf
> Linux Web Server Support
> Backup Supervisor
> Desktop/Network Specialist
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>
> >>> vincentr at cox.net 7/17/2003 >>>
>
> No, it looks like they don't want people re-distributing downloaded CDs as
> "RedHat Linux".  That dosen't sound like an unreasonable request.
> When someone downloads it for free, they should know that no support is
> provided.  If someone buys the same downloaded copy in a store, they
> probably think they have access to support, RHN, etc... Redhat support
> folks probably spend a great amount of time answering phones and email
> telling people that they didn't buy an official copy and have no support. 
> That would get old after the first 100,000 times and it could have a
> negative impact on real customers.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Craig Wolf" <CJWolf at mpsomaha.org>
> To: <olug at olug.org>
> Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 7:49 AM
> Subject: [olug] Red Hat bulletin
>
>
> Seems Red Hat no longer wants people to download their OS...not if you need
> to know what distribution it is:
> http://computerworld.co.nz/webhome.nsf/NL/FEA5148AE2814F7BCC256D63001072A9
>
>
> Craig Wolf
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> Desktop/Network Specialist
> 402-894-6283
>
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