Re: OT: SCO Extortion

Chris Travers wrote:
> RedHat Enterprise IS redistributable, and there are third party distros
> based on it. However there is one major gotcha:
>
> The contract for the enterprise services for RHEL state that every copy of
> RedHat Enterprise Linux in an organization MUST be signed up for the
> enterprise services if any one copy is. This means that an organization
> does lose the install flexibility that open source normally gives, though
> they still can run Fedora on other systems where they do not need these
> services.
>
> >From RedHat's perspective, this avoids a shell game of support "This server
> gets the services this week but this other server got the support last week.
> So we only need one subscription." Again, RHEL's licenses are not
> "licenses" but rather service contracts.

Thanks. It seems perfectly reasonable for Red Hat to place any
restrictions they want on organizations that also want to purchase
support.

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