[Wolves] Any views on Symphony OS and mezzo.

[Simon Morris]

On 28/11/05, David Goodwin <dg at clocksoft.com> wrote:
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> > Right, to try and make amends, Bobby, forget all the other distros you've been
> > messing about with and get hold of CentOS  http://www.centos.org/ this is Red
> > Hat EL repackaged. While it has the slight look and feel of Fedora its more
> > stable has a lower update cycle  with the benefit of being in effect a clone
> > of proprietary software.
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> I'm not quite sure how you can label RHEL as being proprietary. I
> thought it wasn't licensed; you just had to pay for support (if you
> wanted it). Is this no longer the case?

Every component of RHES is open sourced - they don't have any closed
source component.

However they do have restricted trademarked content that they defend
so to use RHES you have to be subscribed to the Red Hat Network to be
a valid copyright licencee (if that is the correct term)

CentOS build their OS from the Red Hat Source binaries - it is to Red
Hats credit that they can do this.

( The above is to provide factual information not to prod the embers,
so to speak )

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