[ale] Canonical makes Apple look so good...

[Lightner, Jeff]

Yes but getting updates isn't easy without a fee based subscription
service.

You are correct though the others don't charge "license" or "royalty"
fees.

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Don
Lachlan
Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2011 2:10 AM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] Canonical makes Apple look so good...

>From Mark Shuttleworth's blog posted earlier:
"This enables us to make the desktop available in a high quality,
fully maintained form, without any royalties or license fees. By
contrast, every other commercial Linux desktop is a licensed product -
you can't legally use it for free, the terms for binaries are similar
to those for Windows or the MacOS."

That's completely false. It's not even *kinda* true on any grounds.
You can freely use or distribute RHEL or SLES or any other
"commercial" GNU/Linux distro without fear - because it's all GPL or
GPL-compatible.

-Lachlan

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