On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 7:09 PM, Stephen John Smoogen <smooge at gmail.com> wrote: > The usual idea is that because its "Free" Software you can't restrict > it in anyway... and that the 'Freedom' trumps any other license or > agreement. And I will bet that if you have enough money, there will be > lawyers who will come up with ways to argue that is a valid > interpretation.. and will argue it over and over again as long as you > have money. I find it funny how people love to complain because companies like RedHat and SuSE/Novell have found a way to make a business out of a free product. There is nothing forcing you to use their distro. And if you do like their distro that much and don't want to pay, there are free alternatives to the commercial products like CentOS, WBEL and OpenSuSE. Heck there are more free distro's than paid ones. Or if you are jealous of those companies making all the money off a free product and are so inclined why don't you create your own commercial Linux distro. There is nothing that they are doing that violates the GPL, if they did, I'm sure that they would have all kinds of legal trouble. Instead of complaining, people should be grateful for the hard work that they do bringing features, fixes, drivers, which are released for free, and by getting hardware vendors involved in bring linux compatibility to their products. I can still remember back in 1995 trying to get support from a hardware vendor who refused to provide drivers for linux or even offer any assistance. -- -matt