Fwd: Possible GPL violation by Red Hat/Dell alliance

[rek2 at linuxbusca.com (rek2)]

I understand. and you are right, but there is more chances of them doing
it, and they have already show they are willing to change things for
their own needs like the KDE/Gnome desktop look(not saying if is good or
bad) but they did it at their own, a  company needs to survive and make
money.  example. if RedHat goes bankrupt .... Debian will still be there
:-) were RedHat may not, I don't know if they will be willing to give
you or me the name RedHat for free so we can follow it and keep
developing on it, I know Debian and others will always pass the flag to
another guy if they can't support it anymore. is a community not a
company they have different needs, etc.

  
ReK2


On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 17:48, Robert L Krawitz wrote:
>    From: rek2 <rek2 at linuxbusca.com>
>    Date: 13 Dec 2002 12:07:35 -0500
> 
>    I am not saying that they are "actually doing it" I just say that they
>    may one day. and that I do like the GNU idea and the GPL license.
> 
> I also like both of those.  However, to say that "they may one day
> violate the GPL" and that therefore you won't use Red Hat isn't being
> fair.  Anyone may violate the GPL one day, including a non-corporate
> entity.
> 
>    On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 13:10, Robert L Krawitz wrote:
>    >    From: "GNU/Linux :-)" <rek2 at linuxbusca.com>
>    >    Date: 13 Dec 2002 07:19:35 -0500
>    > 
>    >    This is one of the reasons why I don't use redhat. no matter
>    >    how good they can get Linux to be. I don't trust them, and I
>    >    am a idealist, I rather use debian, gentoo etc,cause I know
>    >    they don't have to worry about sales or competition, so they
>    >    will be true to the GNU idea and to the original community
>    >    spirit. companys have to worry about other things and I
>    >    understand.. but not for me. that was the reason I dint use
>    >    windows in the first place when I had to choose between
>    >    windows95 or GNU/Linux in the 90's I stick with my slackware
>    >    Linux and today I continue sticking to non corporate OS's like
>    >    Debian.
>    > 
>    > Perhaps rather than speculating it might be more productive to ask the
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