On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 06:59 -0600, Benjamin J. Weiss wrote: > Not necessarily. The large corporations pay the search engines to > ensure that they come up higher on the response lists. > > I understand that RedHat is trying to protect their income. After all, > why pay for RHEL if CentOS is free? I basically have two questions that > I need to find a good IP attorney to clarify for me: You buy RHEL because you want/need support ... simple as that. > 1) If CentOS is, in fact, a re-compile clone of RHEL with RH's > permission (as per the GPL), then how can they legally require that > CentOS not disclose that fact? > 2) Is it legal to restrict others from linking to your website? For #2 it's been my understanding that linking to a website is always allow http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,35306,00.html > I think RH's going a bit overboard, as there really was no confusion as > to whether or not RH was supporting CentOS. I agree, I'm becomming a frustrated with them and this issue. Paul