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(Unverified)Aug 1st 2009 11:36AM

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well, Christina, they don't have much of a choice, now have they?

as sorry as i feel for the developer team, "free" and "open source" or not, there are legal matters to be taken into consideration. they obviously failed to tie up those matters in legally binding contracts. and now that the guy holding all the keys (and the cash register) walks out on them, their project is pretty much doomed. no matter how petty the feud, there isn't really much left for them to do other than whining in "open letters".

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(Unverified)Aug 1st 2009 12:31PM

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Again, we're in total agreement. I certainly don't think that the open source nature of the project mitigates the irresponsibility of not having the proper legal and contractual procedures in place to prevent this sort of thing from happening. As I said, these are the types of "costs" that need to be considered when choosing a product or service. Just because RHEL and CentOS share the same code doesn't mean the customer is going to have the same assurances.

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