On Sat, Nov 18, 2006 02:38:49 AM -0900, John Andersen (jsa@pen.homeip.net) wrote:
On Saturday 18 November 2006 02:21, B.Weber@warwick.ac.uk wrote:
I will be first to admit, I have no clue as to how much work and effort is involved in creating a fork of a distro.
Indeed, apart from being an entirely pointless exercise as the fork would be just as illegal to distribute as the original, it would also never happen.
Really? Never? Go look at how many linux distros have sprung up from Debian recently. Why are we running xorg instead of Xfree?
Because XFree was developed, packaged and maintained in a way that pissed a lot of developers and distro packagers off. That's common knowledge, and this (the patents parts of the Novell-MS deal) an entirely different issue. You keep confusing copyright with patents, see my other message. Ciao, Marco -- The right way to make everybody love Free Standards and Free Software: http://digifreedom.net/node/73 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org