In article <CALKwpEyuPRU5Az9xU_d_BrJc0m_E9XDLH1T5iuB2U8rvRZevTg at mail.gmail.com>, Brian Mathis <brian.mathis+centos at betteradmin.com> wrote: > > When Redhat announced the changes they made it very clear they were > trying to prevent other companies (like Oracle and Novell) who were > providing support to RHEL customers at reduced rates. They have never > said they were concerned with the free clones and in fact have helped > CentOS many times in the past (according to statements from the core > developers). > > Redhat knows that the free distros help them maintain market share, > and gain customers who need full support eventually. The issues > CentOS are seeing are simply collateral damage to the larger war > against the other big companies who are trying to provide services by > cheating. Except that the other day, Johnny posted this: > I can tell you that we have been contacted by upstream to make sure we > **UNDERSTAND** the new AUP restrictions on distribution. I can also > tell you that we (CentOS) are doing everything in our power to meet the > restrictions as they were explained to us. which sounds like RH making it clear that their changes are aimed at CentOS too. Pity... perhaps RH have had a change of manager somewhere... Cheers Tony -- Tony Mountifield Work: tony at softins.co.uk - http://www.softins.co.uk Play: tony at mountifield.org - http://tony.mountifield.org