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Comment Re:This is good (Score 1) 545

This should be let run as it is - think about it: the lawyers are probably working on a percentage basis for a win so...The RIAA is awarded 75 trillion...Limewire goes bankrupt...the RIAA owes the lawyers x% of 75 trillion and goes bankrupt...the lawyers get nothing.

OK, a degree of discomfort for the Limewire guys, but overall a good potential outcome.

Comment Re:CentOS (Score 5, Informative) 184

I have put on my 'not sure if serious' face as I am not sure if you are trolling or just ignorant of the situation, but rather than give my perspective, have a read from an earlier Slashdot thread on the subject titled "Is CentOS hurting Red Hat?":

http://linux.slashdot.org/story/07/11/04/1331247/Is-CentOS-Hurting-Red-Hat

""I'm pretty sure RedHat hate CentOS."

1. No, we don't. At least, not most of us -- because most of us actually *understand* the business we're in. That's why we're making all this nice money. If we did hate CentOS, we could make it awfully difficult for them in any number of ways -- delaying updates, hiding marks and making them play "where's Waldo" every release, that sort of thing.

2. The "coy mumbo jumbo" about the upstream vendor has to do with trademark protection, not hate. We don't want "Red Hat" to turn into "Kleenex".

3. Here's a question: why is there no CentOS equivalent based on SuSE products? Think about it.

4. A lot of the significant people in the CentOS community are actually important and respected members of the Fedora community as well. That way, Red Hat benefits from the work of the more savvy CentOS users. That's how open source works, you see.
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