I don't know how you read that into my statement when I clearly said: "..the resulting offering will be marketed and sold by each of the four partners under their own brands." Do you see unitedlinux there? On Thursday 30 May 2002 22:40, you wrote:
begin steve's quote: | It's actually all covered in this one sentence: | | "The four partners will each bundle value added products and | services with the UnitedLinux operating system and the resulting | offering will be marketed and sold by each of the four partners | under their own brands." | | So all it will mean is more efficient R&D, to everyones advantage.
wrong. under the agreement, the four companies are *prohibited* from producing a unitedlinux desktop distribution. to quote gerhard burtscher, in response to a question from me, "There will be a separate version for consumers, as it is today, but this is not labeled 'UnitedLinux'. That's a separate story here. 'UnitedLinux' is enterprise only."
there will be no isos and no binaries, and the circumstances under which the source will be "made freely available" remain somewhat clouded.
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