From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from cantata.rednote.net ([66.92.170.86]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1AHDv5-0005N8-00 for ; Tue, 04 Nov 2003 22:01:19 -0500 Received: from cantata.rednote.net (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by cantata.rednote.net (8.12.3/8.12.3/Debian-6.6) with ESMTP id hA531FiM002085 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=OK) for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2003 22:01:16 -0500 Received: (from janina@localhost) by cantata.rednote.net (8.12.3/8.12.3/Debian-6.6) id hA531FAR002083 for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Tue, 4 Nov 2003 22:01:15 -0500 Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2003 22:01:14 -0500 From: Janina Sajka To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Message-ID: <20031105030114.GC30104@rednote.net> References: <20031105010521.SCZG1433.mta1.adelphia.net@beavis> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031105010521.SCZG1433.mta1.adelphia.net@beavis> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Subject: Re: strange communication X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.3 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2003 03:01:19 -0000 Well, yes, free speech and not free beer. And, RH Enterprise won't be downloadable, at least not as far as I'm aware. I'd be extremely surprised. What will be downloadable is Fedora Core 1.0. Jacob Schmude writes: > From: "Jacob Schmude" > > Hi > Actually, that's not true. The gpl states that anyone may charge money for a product, as long as the source is distributed with it. The gpl doesn't say that the > product has to be freely downloadable, it says that the source must be provided and that the user has the right to modify it. Many people seem to interpret this > as the product must be available at no cost, which is not true. RH is completely entitled to charge money for enterprise linux and not make it freely > downloadable, so long as they provide the source code with it. As the FSF says: think free speech not free beer. > HTH > On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 15:20:48 -0600 (CST), Nick Gawronski wrote: > > >Hi, You won't need to buy redhat enterprize linux if you don't want to. > >The new version will be freely downloadable and if it is not then that > >is a violation of the gpl. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka Email: janina@rednote.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Director, Technology Research and Development American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) http://www.afb.org Chair, Accessibility Work Group Free Standards Group http://accessibility.freestandards.org