[CLUE-Tech] GPL loopholes

[Joe Linux]

Well my problem was I would want to adjust something like screen 
resolution and instead of the control panel opening up, the dialer would 
come up and want to connect to RH.  Anyway it's a mute point, because I 
dumped RH and actually bought what I believe to be better Linux 
software. - Libranet 2.8  (Better in the sense that it doesn't require a 
paid system administrator to operate it for me - only root can dial up 
with a RH system.)

Kirk Rafferty wrote:

>On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 01:56:05PM -0600, Joe Linux wrote:
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>>Kirk Rafferty wrote:
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>>>Actually, you've never been "forced" to register with Red Hat.  Their
>>>installer strongly encouraged it, but just hitting cancel works nicely.
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>>Not true.  I did hit "cancel" and RH worked for about ywo weeks or so 
>>and then anytime I tried to launch their half baked control panel it 
>>would just open up the Internet Dialer instead with some sort of message 
>>that indicated that I had not registered.
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>Yes, if you run up2date (the "half-baked control panel" of which you speak :)
>without registering, it will complain that you're not registered.
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>But you're not forced to register, you just can't use RHN without
>registering.  You can still use and update your system manually by going
>to updates.redhat.com and downloading the apropriate RPMs.
>
>-k
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