On Fri, 14 Jun 2013, "Pidgorny, Slav (GEUS)" <slav.pidgorny@anz.com> wrote:
From: Russell Coker [mailto:russell@coker.com.au]
You can't just get a copy of RHEL binaries and run them on all your systems.
Sure I can. Download binaries, install on multiple systems, done. And it won't stop working.
You can do that with most software that's out there. Recent versions of Windows have "anti piracy" measures, but they say you can download a copy with those disabled if you know where to look.
Is there a free version of RHN Satellite? That's all proprietary software so would need to be re-written from scratch.
http://www.spacewalkproject.org/
They open-source every product they use and support.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacewalk_(software) That's a recent change, the Wikipedia page notes that they released the source to that in 2008.
Yes - same applies to any product that is sold and bought on free market. Profiting from making goods and services such as Bibles, communist-themed t-shirts or free software support, is the essence of capitalism.
That doesn't make such things essentially capitalist. Are we in agreement that Linux isn't essentially capitalist now? -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/