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List:       kde
Subject:    Re: RedHat and KDE
From:       Jim Howarth <jhowarth () multiboard ! com>
Date:       1999-07-10 14:28:14
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Oh my god... you mean they where carrying out normal legal business
practices?  Sorry my friend, RedHat and HP are businesses and that is how
business communicates... When I'm about to work on a deal with another
business, I "communicate" with them privately before the deal goes
through.  RedHat has done nothing but good for Linux in my humble yet
informed opinion and I hope they keep it up.

Jim

ps. for the record, I'm a slackware user.

On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, George Hademenos wrote:

> Dep it is public now...but the issue is that some of these negotiations were
> being done in secret over the telephone before decisions and publications
> were made.
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> dep wrote:
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> > On Fri, 09 Jul 1999, George Hademenos wrote:
> > |There has been a serious report that RedHat took some money from Intel
> > |and secretly gave it to Hewlitt Packard to get special printer drivers
> > |written for RedHat......this is a serious breach of GNU sharing
> > |principles....now there are discussions underway to consider removing
> > |RedHat from the community.  I think RedHat may release this printer code
> > |to all distributors but I am not sure.....so if any one wishes to
> > |comment more about taking GNU and KDE priveleges away from
> > |RedHat....this forum is open.
> >
> > well, actually, no it's not. this forum is about kde, not the court
> > of linux conduct. and in any case, this is what i was talking about
> > all last week (which by the way is not printer drivers but jet
> > direct network printer software, and the arrangement is scarcely
> > secret -- look at the red hat and h-p press releases, and at
> > h-p's web site download area), which very nearly led to bloodshed. we
> > dropped it then. if you have a dispute with red hat, as indeed i do,
> > then there are fora in which it ought to be discussed, but this is not
> > among them.
> >
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