Quoting Conor Daly (conor.daly_ilug at cod.homelinux.org):
[Interesting points that I may have to revisit.]
> Indeed. One thing I thought was the case (with no justification
> whatsoever) was that Red Hat Inc. was being very careful to include only
> free software (or was that simply un-patent encumbered stuff?) in their
> distributions.
That would be my guess, too. It's a shame how few people in our
community will give that firm the benefit of the doubt, given all that
they've done for us.
> Please feel free to cite any of my contributions to this thread if they
> would be useful...
Thank you. I may, indeed.
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