[Centos] Red Hat Legal Targets www.centos.org website content

Paul subsolar at subsolar.org
Mon Feb 14 04:28:57 UTC 2005


On Sun, 2005-02-13 at 20:46 -0700, Greg Knaddison wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 02:06:30 -0800, Francois Caen <frcaen at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 03:33:24 -0500, Forrest Samuels
> > <forrest at liquidcs.com> wrote:
> > > Does this also mean you can't link to the location where you get the source
> > > to build CentOS? Can you still link to Red Hat's Errata pages?
> > 
> > The answer to that is in the letter:
> > 
> > "Moreover, our client does not allow others to provide links to our
> > client's web site without permission. "
> > 
> > Which is ludicrous.
> > 
> > And would have a funny side effect: if nobody linked to RH, they would
> > disappear from Google  :)
> > 
> 
> I imagine that RedHat has given permission to the search engines and
> media and...everyone who they feel helps them by linking.
> 
> Though I agree, it is counter to the way that the web has grown.

Actually since Google works based on the number of sites linking to you
it would effect their ratings.

Paul





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