Jaime Ventura wrote:
> Hi. Thanks for your reply.
> Im using CentOS for almost 2 years, and that's the only topic is
> worrying me.
Other than for critical security updates it isn't much to worry about.
These boxes will run for years without any changes.
> I understand this is more a "legal" question other than technical. I
> mean, with GPL you have to deliver the source if you deliver a binary.
> But is it legal to deliver the source say one week after the binary?
The "prominent North American Enterprise Linux vendor" could make it
very difficult to clone their OS and stay within legal bounds. I think
it would be suicide for them to try, because the more people who think
that commands like:
system-config-service_name
service service_name start|stop|restart
chkconfig service_name on|off
rpm -U package_name
etc. are the way to manage a Linux box the more potential customers they
have for their services. People who haven't gotten used to those
commands could just as easily run a Debian-derived system or Suse.
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Les Mikesell
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