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  1. Dan Lynch Dan Lynch

    @mcepl IBM had a deal with SUN (which must be honoured by Oracle) for a proprietary license to OpenOffice. Read the history and you'll see.

    Sunday, 19-Jun-11 10:28:46 UTC from twidroid at Liverpool, England, United Kingdom
    • Fabian Scherschel Fabian Scherschel

      @mcepl They can sell it but the can't proprietorise it. That is the whole point. @methoddan

      Sunday, 19-Jun-11 09:47:19 UTC
    • Fabian Scherschel Fabian Scherschel

      @mcepl @methoddan IBM isn't just selling OOo, they are selling a version with proprietary patches & improvements as by their deal with Sun.

      Sunday, 19-Jun-11 09:49:36 UTC
    • Dan Lynch Dan Lynch Fabian Scherschel

      @mcepl As @fabsh points out it's not about selling the code. It's about closing it. LGPL prevents that. O

      Sunday, 19-Jun-11 10:26:35 UTC
    • Dan Lynch Dan Lynch

      @mcepl Well I certainly agree they can't proprietorise LGPL code, that's just a fact. But I also don't see why they need to in the 1st place

      Sunday, 19-Jun-11 11:12:34 UTC
    • Dan Lynch Dan Lynch

      @mcepl If you do want to learn more about the issue there's a good discussion on FAIF 0x11. I wouldn't blame you for skipping it though :)

      Sunday, 19-Jun-11 11:15:26 UTC
    • Dan Lynch Dan Lynch

      @mcepl I saw that. I think they're issuing a correction in the new show but haven't heard it yet.

      Sunday, 19-Jun-11 11:39:10 UTC
    • Bradley M. Kuhn Bradley M. Kuhn Red Hat

      @mcepl, I wasn't confused; my facts were outdated. The release of SRPMs of !RedHat's RHEL was not always the default action.

      Sunday, 19-Jun-11 13:15:55 UTC
    • Bradley M. Kuhn Bradley M. Kuhn Red Hat , Richard Fontana

      @fontana,Can't *prove* it w/out access to historical versions of !RedHat FTP site. I recall looking #RHEL source years ago & not finding it

      Sunday, 19-Jun-11 21:23:59 UTC
    • Bradley M. Kuhn Bradley M. Kuhn Richard Fontana

      @fontana, & perhaps it's true they've always been hidden in plain sight. Others also told me it was initially hard to get #RHEL sources.

      Sunday, 19-Jun-11 21:40:00 UTC
    • Bradley M. Kuhn Bradley M. Kuhn Richard Fontana

      @fontana,I've also some recollection that we asked #Webbink if #RHEL source'd be publicly available & he said "not necessarily" or something

      Sunday, 19-Jun-11 22:03:44 UTC
    • Bradley M. Kuhn Bradley M. Kuhn Richard Fontana

      @fontana, #Webbink probably has plenty of details on history of the #RHEL business model. Shall we interview him about this for our book?

      Sunday, 19-Jun-11 22:05:48 UTC
    • Bradley M. Kuhn Bradley M. Kuhn Richard Fontana

      @fontana, it won't be. We just need to interview people to get the data we need to build the full history. It needs to be accurate, no?

      Monday, 20-Jun-11 00:03:35 UTC
    • Bradley M. Kuhn Bradley M. Kuhn Richard Fontana

      @fontana, why don't you write a first draft of chapter 1? I'll stick with whatever way of doing it that you want to do. Just write. :)

      Monday, 20-Jun-11 00:34:04 UTC
    • Alexandre Oliva Alexandre Oliva Bradley M. Kuhn

      @bkuhn RHE[G]L was started shortly after I joined Red Hat. I co-ran ftp.unicamp.br mirrors then, and RH enterprise sources were there

      Monday, 20-Jun-11 01:07:29 UTC
    • Alexandre Oliva Alexandre Oliva Bradley M. Kuhn

      @bkuhn I remember being surprised when I found out about them, and being annoyed it wasn't widely publicized

      Monday, 20-Jun-11 01:09:51 UTC
    • Alexandre Oliva Alexandre Oliva Bradley M. Kuhn

      @bkuhn though back then it was called Advanced Server, so take my memories with a grain of salt

      Monday, 20-Jun-11 01:23:54 UTC
    • Lord Drachenblut Lord Drachenblut

      @methoddan have a link to the info

      Tuesday, 21-Jun-11 08:18:04 UTC
    • Dan Lynch Dan Lynch Bradley M. Kuhn , Lord Drachenblut

      @lorddrachenblut Don't have any direct links to hand sorry. @bkuhn was telling me the history. He may be able to help with links.

      Tuesday, 21-Jun-11 12:32:40 UTC
    • Lord Drachenblut Lord Drachenblut Bradley M. Kuhn

      @methoddan @bkuhn would love to hear more of this history. Is it covered in FaiF by chance

      Tuesday, 21-Jun-11 19:51:30 UTC
    • Dan Lynch Dan Lynch Lord Drachenblut

      @lorddrachenblut We talked about it at length I FAIF episode 0x11 if you want to hear more.

      Tuesday, 21-Jun-11 23:33:19 UTC
    • Lord Drachenblut Lord Drachenblut

      @methoddan awesome, I still need to, and will be subscribing to that show

      Tuesday, 21-Jun-11 23:47:51 UTC

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