On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 11:36 AM, Dan Carl <danc at bluestarshows.com> wrote: > Heard someone mention free beer, had to participate. > > CentOS, we find RedHat's bugs > > CentOS, the OS that makes sense. > > Dan I know that everyone seems to think any mention of RH is cute and funny, but it's just asking for a lawsuit. Does anyone remember LinuxWorld Expo in Boston a couple years ago when RH was releasing RHEL4. No? I do, because that's when CentOS got a letter from RH legal department asking to remove all references to their name and I was the one sitting in the LinuxWorld booth trying to justify to people that CentOS was a valid project and not just stealing someone else's IP. If CentOS wants to be taken seriously, especially by big business, you don't do it by biting the hand that feeds you and creating bad publicity. Referring to RH without their permission is just begging for RH to sue us. Drop the RH jokes and push CentOS on it's merit as a stable enterprise OS with a great community behind it. Also without RH, CentOS wouldn't be. They make it very easy to obtain the sources in a manner that makes it easy to build CentOS by releasing complete SRPMs. There's nothing saying RH has to release the code this way. They could make it very difficult for groups like CentOS, WhiteBox, and Scientific Linux. Be nice to RH and buy a license here and there when it makes sense. They have their place in the food chain, as do we. Just my $0.02 -- -matt