On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 03:46, der.hans wrote:
> Am 03. Feb, 2004 schwätzte Derek Neighbors so:
> 
> > On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 17:29, der.hans wrote:
> > > Am 02. Feb, 2004 schwätzte Derek Neighbors so:
> 
> > > What's to prevent the other support vendor from making the software
> > > unavailable?
> >
> > I don't understand the question.  In the case of Debian, the software is
> > available w/o a vendor.  Only the support is supplied by the vendor.  At
> > which point if such a vendor started acting in ways I didn't like I have
> > the option to leave them for a better vendor.
> 
> What's to prevent me from buying RHEL, removing references to RH and RH
> logos, then selling it as FEL ( fred's Enterprise Linux )?
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I would suppose that what would stop you from doing that is your ego. At
suspect that you would call it Lufthans Linux. More importantly, the
market isn't stupid and it wouldn't enjoy large success because it was a
'lifted' product.

Craig