... major snippage >
> What this means is that people want to dance to the music without paying
> the fiddler as if the assemblage of this distro, the timely updates over
> a cycle of 5 years will be without cost and the people paying for this
> privilege are the actual purchasers of RHEL. I know I would feel like
> Freddy the Freeloader if I were to download and install it for someone.
Given the circumstances, it was rather decent of Redhat to make the
SRPMs available for free download. I know if *I* took the combined work
of thousands of volunteers, slapped a draconian EULA on it and charged
hundreds or thousands of dollars per license, I'd feel like Randy the
Robber Baron ;-)
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