Red Hat License Challenged

An anonymous reader writes: "David McNett has noticed an apparent discrepancy between the Red Hat Linux EULA and the GPL. He has written an open letter to the FSF asking for their opinion on the matter. Does Red Hat have the right to "audit your facilities and records" to ensure compliance with their license?" McNett misreads the Red Hat documents. Their contract is for the various services, not the software, and for the services they are entitled to demand whatever concessions they think the market will bear.

I love /.

[gergi]

So now the /. editors are posting stories that they are going to immediately refute and say isn't a story at all? I love this place :).

More amazing is that this story will generate hundreds of comments.

Well...

[FoxIVX]

At least things are getting more efficient around here. The editors are posting bogus news stories, then retracting them themselves before someone points it out. I call that progress!

Re:Well...

[jmv]

Yeh, still trying to figure out what is new in that. It's like: "Cure for Cancer discovered! No in fact, it doesn't work. Never mind.".

Re:Well...

[will_die]

But it does give them a better track record then the New York Times.

Right on

[bahamat]

Way to go Michael, for publicly spanking that boy.

This could have easily been relegated to "not news" since it's apparent that McNett simply misunderstood. But I'm all for public humiliation, especially here on /. where we all can ridicule him for his mistake.

Re: Why was this even posted?

[Black Parrot]

> you meant "Staff that mutters"

I first started reading Slashdot because I thought they were going to have "Nudes for Nerds".

Re:Editors...say it with me...EDITORS...Very good!

[keiferb]

> Cool thing about /. is your can post your own reply AND other people actually READ them!

Yeah, now if only we could get them to read the -articles- too...

The moral of the story...

[smyle]

...is that if you're buying RedHat support for only "some" of your servers, be sure your other servers use another distro.

Hmmm... I don't think that's what RedHat wants, but it seems to be the end result. I would think that they would come up with some scheme to label "THIS" box as the one that's suppored rather than sending their customers elsewhere.

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Re:I love /.

[ckaminski]

is the admonition to not read the linked story?

As if anyone actually READS the linked stories anyway...